Sarah Ryan & Tiffany Shafran

Love Lies Bleeding

‘Love Lies Bleeding’ is as a result of a shared love of gardening, reading, collecting and wandering. Taking a photographer's sense of framing a situation, and a collector's sense of presenting a series of objects, Sarah Ryan and Tiffany Shafran observe moments within everyday life, exploring essences of beauty, wonder and aesthetics.

Inspired by the strange beauty of a plant of the same name, grown from seed by Sarah, the exhibition poses questions about how we can re-wild and re-ground ourselves in a world increasingly detached from nature, yet in an existence that seems on the verge of collapse. With a heightened sense of observation, the artists have made artworks from the things already around them as both a challenge to appreciate their local environments and as a opportunity to make work that elevates the overlooked, the mundane and the discarded.

Please join us:

Opening Night - Friday 9 April, 6pm - all welcome

Wine Pairing and Artist Talk - Sunday 18 April, 5pm - $40 a head, book here

Exhibition runs 9 April - 5 May 2021

Floor Sheet with Prices

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Sarah Ryan

Idleness, strolling, slowness, taking your time, ennui, boredom, delay, loitering, resting, dreaming are widely thought of as being intrinsically at odds with how the rest of the world functions, and despised for it. However, throughout history, great thinkers and revolutionary social movements have plugged into a different way of thinking on the subject: that idleness is not a vice preventing success, but in fact the very key to a good existence. Within my images I explore this serene and meditative quality, granting them a moment’s pause within the rush of passing time.

Dr Sarah Ryan is a Toowoomba-based artist, she received her PhD in 2002 from the University of Tasmania in Hobart. Sarah has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions since 1996, and she was awarded the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Australia Council Studio in Berlin in 2008. Her work is held in collections including Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank, Australian Consulate, Frankfurt, Germany, Hobart City Council, Griffith Artworks and private collections.


Tiffany Shafran

Who doesn’t love a flower…Love lies bleeding is the starting point of a personal revision. One where I am seeing new potential amongst incomplete past experiments. Drawing upon my archive of found images, painted backgrounds and textiles, the pieces on display playfully explore collage’s potential. The works were made intuitively, inspired by pattern, picnics, flower arranging and amateur naturalism.

Dr Tiffany Shafran is a Toowoomba-based artist whose work explores nostalgia, collections and aesthetics. Shafran received her PhD, Relics of All Things Precious, from USQ in 2012. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in private and public collections, such as the Mater Mothers Hospital, Griffith University and Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery.