About Gail Meyer
Meyer is a Rockhampton-based artist with a practice spanning more than 20 years. Meyer’s relationship to her hometown Rockhampton, Central Queensland, on Darumbal Country, continues to inform her art-making. Exploring the attachment of memory and place with familiar environments, presents a challenge in representing the familiar in a new way, and not just pictorially.
Meyer undertook formal studies in visual art at Central Queensland University from 2000 to 2002 in drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and since then has diversified her practice further by attending a range of skills development workshops in the contemporary genre tutored by notable Australian artists such as Tim Storrier, Idris Murphy, Andrew Antoniou, David Fairbairn, Peter Sharp, and Jo Furlonger at an annual artist’s retreat in Central Queensland. Creating a wide range of visual stimulation and discussion around her work is the driving force behind her practice.
Meyer creates dynamic, immersive artworks, where ‘place’ is not only a source of inspiration but a way of connecting to others and expressing her identity and connection to the world. A deep respect and sensitivity for the landscape of Darumbal Country is expressed through richly layered mixed media artworks that are joyful and whimsical. Her creative process is to initially sketch ideas, which develop into abstract motifs, and finally transform her impression of the landscape into a complex multi-layered personal response. A fusion of drawing mediums and paint create a shift toward more abstracted layered landscapes in Meyer’s more recent works, but as Meyer says “it’s always about my connection to place”.
Image: Courtesy of the artist.
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