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Portraits of Love: A Mother’s Perspective by Meli Axford
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Portraits of Love: A Mother’s Perspective by regional artist Meli Axford, explores the nuanced dynamics of love, family, and her daughters’ transition to adulthood through a mother’s eyes.
Featuring vibrant paintings that capture the complexities of growing up, the exhibition showcases the latest in Axford’s ongoing Pool Series and highlights the emotional connections within her family.
Axford carefully combines the use of colour and negative space in her works, while exploring transition and growth via a symbolic gesture of fluorescent colour – reminiscent of fluorescence material – which can both absorb and reflect light in a process of change.
Axford’s works are poetically framed as portraits of love through a mother’s eyes, offering an alternate perspective on portraiture and a contribution to the phenomenology of the female gaze.
Meli Axford
Time After Time (detail) 2023
oil on canvas
120 x 150 cm
Image courtesy the artist © The artist
