Dorothy Braund 'Love Embrace' Printmaking investigating the fragilities within society

investigating the fragilities within society

escape into ‘The World Will Still Turn II’

the Barmah Forest along the Murray River

The images of playing children can be said to represent an idealised version of his childhood

to gaze upon ‘Lohan Creek’ is to remember one’s place in the world

Dorothy Braund 'Love Embrace' Printmaking investigating the fragilities within societyAustralian modernist Dorothy Braund pursued simplicity. As she described, it knocked her out theres no chance for accidental effects. If you are simple everything has to relate and work an ethos that steered her attitude towards art, producing work that was more musical than literal, hymns about people, places and activities. Among Braunds favoured subjects were parties. In throngs of dancing people, she found unexpected formal opportunities shoulders