Exhibition explores artists' fascination with colour and movement
Published on 28 August 2025
A shared fascination with colour and movement has inspired a collaborative exhibition featuring works by AJ Gogas and Barbara Stephenson, which will be on display at Goombungee’s Rosalie Gallery from September 3 to October 5, 2025.
The exhibition, Colourways, melds the artists’ ideas and perspectives in an interplay where AJ Gogas’s paintings are echoed in the layered textures of Barbara Stephenson’s textile art.
Their thought-provoking collaboration explores an understanding of inner and outer worlds through an intuitive exchange of approaches and ideas.
AJ and Barbara connected 10 years ago through their love of colour.
Barbara works with upcycled textiles and traditional standing wool rugmaking.
She dyes, arranges and sews strips of fabric. Her stylised woollen landscapes come from memories of places travelled or imagined.
They reduce the world to lines and swirls that shift between landscape and aerial view.
Just as maps tell stories of travelling over the land, these textile landscapes tell a story of the forces that have formed them.
AJ creates colourful swirls of abstract art using somatic painting. Somatic painting is an intuitive and tactile process.
It is informed by body sensations like heaviness in the chest, butterflies in the stomach or tingling fingers, tension and release.
AJ uses her body to manipulate and mix the paint – a brush of the fingers, a flick of the hand or a massaging knead of the forearm.
The tension and release process results in inner landscapes of colour and movement.
The exhibition’s Artists in Conversation event will be held from 11am on Saturday, September 13, 2025.
For more information, please see: www.tr.qld.gov.au/rosaliegallery
For further information, contact the Gallery on (07) 4696 5600 or Rosalie.gallery@tr.qld.gov.au
Rosalie Gallery at 89 Mocatta Street, Goombungee is open from 10.30am to 3.30pm Wednesday to Sunday and closed on Monday, Tuesday and public holidays. Entry is free.
Images:
1. AJ GOGAS / NYX 2025 / acrylic on canvas / 63 x 33cm / Photograph: Ann Alcock / © AJ Gogas (top)
2. Barbara STEPHENSON / Cherish the green places 2025 / textiles / 50 x 50cm / Photograph: Ann Alcock / © Barbara Stephenson
3. AJ GOGAS / Diaspora 2025 / acrylic on canvas / 63 x 33cm / Photograph: Ann Alcock / © AJ Gogas
4. Barbara STEPHENSON / Dusk 2024 / textiles / 65 x 65cm / Photograph: Ann Alcock / © Barbara Stephenson (bottom)
