Panel Discussion - Commonality

Join award winning writer, transdisciplinary artist and facilitator Toni Hassan as she leads an informative panel discussion with the artists.

Commonality

“The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.” feminist activist, Barbara Deming

This exhibition was born from a shared sense of isolation while practicing as emerging artists. Through coming together and comparing our different experiences over the last two years, we have recognised some common threads and a thirst for collaboration.

Our innate compulsions to paint and how this frames the way we look at the world around us is a realisation which we have to taken back into our studio practices. This has deepened our sense of interconnectedness, setting the foundation for our collaborative paintings in pairs.

Image: Emma Neill, Nonning Shed #2 (Detail), 2025. Oil on canvas.