For Quantock, the humble twig has become a way of recording movement, time and place. Her Rhythm Sticks works grew from a month spent walking in the Blue Mountains, when she collected leaves and sticks during a series of 31 walks.  The sticks became physical records of her journeys, later translated into assemblages and paintings exploring rhythm, repetition and the act of walking.

Pry’s recent paintings and drawings return to another kind of everyday object: the bathing costume, or “togs”, alongside old photographs and memories of women at the coast. Her works explore the relationship between memory, place and feminine presence, drawing on the visual culture of Australian seaside life and the local landscape of the Illawarra.

While their materials and processes are markedly different, both artists share an interest in ordinary things as carriers of memory—objects that can become records of where we have been, what we have seen and the experiences we carry with us.

“Twigs and Togs” promises a lively meeting of two distinctive practices: Quantock’s rhythmic assemblages and paintings made from the humble materials of walking, alongside Pry’s evocative paintings and drawings inspired by coastal memories, bathing culture and a woman’s sense of place.