Still Here

Georgia Pricone’s Still Here brings together flowers, glass vessels and white drapery in a series of still lifes shaped by close observation in the artist’s Melbourne studio.

Waratahs, orchids and hellebores send their branching stems and asymmetrical blooms beyond the neat contours of their containers. The glassware introduces a counterpoint of polished curves and ornament, while the cloth behind it falls into broad, sculptural folds. In its pale gradations of light and shadow, the drapery recalls marble and the fragmentary forms of classical sculpture. The flowers, meanwhile, embody a more fleeting presence: cut and placed in water, they are preserved for a time, their vitality already subject to change.

As Pricone writes, “My exhibition is a celebration of the ordinary act of noticing; a flower gathered from the garden, light falling across a familiar vessel, or an object carrying the memory of those who came before us.”