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Well Loved

Well Loved

Date
15 September - 13 October 2018
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Salt Spoons with Feather and Quail's Egg
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Two Small Spoons with Quail's Egg
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Spade Spoon, Fish Knife
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Two Bone Handled Spoons
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Letter with Egg and Key
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Scissors with Thread and Beetle
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Tied Letter with Butterfly
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Pickle Forks
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Quail's Egg with Fork and Spoon
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Four Collected Spoons
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Tied Postcards with Magnifying Glass
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Saved Fragments
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Lockets with Feather
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Skyline Utensils
  • Hybrid Gallery Rachel Ross Arranged Silverware with Ribbon

For Rachel Ross it is the wear in the bowl of a spoon used daily or the tear in the paper of a letter read multiple times which draws her to these objects to paint. Their patina, tarnish, battered corners and creases are all signs of use, of care and tell her it is a thing well loved. 

It is the emotional connection between object, owner and now collector, painter and viewer which allows these paintings to fascinate and resonate.