Apprehendsion is an exhibition of recent multi-panelled paintings by Leigh Schoenheimer that are based on her research into flora and fauna of south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales, including elements that are both endangered and endemic, native and invasive. These bring together the artist’s longstanding interest in painting as a way of seeing – an interplay of image and idea explored through iterations of realism, abstraction and text – with her unease about the impact of colonisation on the local natural environment. Schoenheimer’s portmanteau, ‘apprehendsion’, encapsulates these dual concerns and their relationship: a method used to apprehend, in the form of painting as a mode of perception and understanding, is used to express apprehension, in the form of ecologically-minded anxiety.
Apprehendsion includes work from two of Schoenheimer’s existing series, The Meaning of (Still) Life: An Unnatural History (2021-2022) and Still-Scapes: Tweed Weeds (2022).”
RAG, RPAC Mezzanine, 2-16 Middle St, Cleveland
WEDNESDAY 14 AUGUST 2024 –
FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER 2024
Artist Pre-Opening Workshop – Foreign Foliage:
9.30am, Wednesday 14 August 2024
Opening Event:
11.30am, Wednesday 14 August 2024
Full workshop and event progam
Leigh Schoenheimer, The Meaning of (Still) Life: An Unnatural History – The Glossy Black #1 (Detail), 2022. Acrylic on Ply, 61x137cm. Photograph courtesy of the artist.