Rainbow. Paddle. Pop. is a suite of most recent paintings by Emma Beer and riffs off the experience of walking amongst the light at sunrise or sunset when every colour of the rainbow is seen in the sky, shifting fast and slow all at the same time.
Beer attempts to capture this light through a single gesture applied at speed emulating the swiftness of time and experience similar to that of watching the light of the sky softly dance.
This is Beer's second exhibition with Gallery 9, most recently she was listed as a finalist for the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize, winner of the 2022 Goulburn Regional Gallery Art Award,and has work acquired in the Art Bank, Sydney collection, Macquarie Group Collection, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, ACT. and The Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra collections.
Emma Beer
truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it 2024
acrylic on linen
80 × 60 cm
Emma Beer
how strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude 2024
acrylic on linen
80 × 60 cm
Emma Beer
a word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day 2024
acrylic on linen
90 × 70 cm
Emma Beer
the brain is wider than the sky 2024
acrylic on linen
100 × 80 cm
Emma Beer
saying nothing... sometimes says the most 2024
acrylic on linen
100 × 80 cm
Emma Beer
find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough 2024
acrylic on linen
100 × 80 cm
Emma Beer
behaviour is what one does, not what one thinks, feels, or believes 2024
acrylic on linen
100 × 80 cm
Emma Beer
dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell 2024
acrylic on linen
120 × 100 cm
Emma Beer
angels in the early morning 2022
acrylic on canvas
80 × 50 cm
Emma Beer
time and eternity 2022
acrylic on canvas
75 × 50 cm
