THE PLACE YOU REMEMBER by Genna Shrosbee
On exhibition from Thursday, the 4th of September.
This exhibition presents two distinct but interconnected bodies of work that speak in different mediums but share a common language - one of reflection, memory, and the emotional imprint of landscape. Artist Bio
“I grew up with dirty hands and was happiest with little to no clothing on. Before the sun rose, Dad would take me fishing. That moment, before light reveals the world, when what you see begins to blur into what you remember…. That’s what I paint. That feeling.”
Genna is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is a quiet homage to the natural landscapes of her childhood, where detail is less important than atmosphere, and feeling holds more truth than form. Whether painting or working with textiles, Genna draws from a palette of memory, earth and instinct.
Her early life was spent immersed outside, shaping her creative world and an intuitive sensitivity to the way light moves. She recalls countless afternoons in the bush when the day begins to slip into shadow, or trailing her father to the dam before sunrise, when the world was still half-dreamed and the colour of the day had yet to arrive. Her pieces are less about depicting the visible world and more about capturing the liminal moments.
In addition to her solo art practice, Genna is the founder of Beagle and Basset, a clothing and homeware studio dedicated to textile artistry, community, and the beauty of natural materials. Landscape Oil Paintings
This series of abstract oil landscapes is a quiet meditation on place, mood, and the shifting dance between light and dark. Working in earthy, muted sepia tones, the paintings are not concerned with detail or realism, but rather with evocation, echoing the afterglow and residue of a landscape you may have seen before. Each piece blurs the edge of memory and geography, offering a sense of having been somewhere known, yet unnamed.
These works suggest a kind of internal cartography - emotional terrain shaped by familiarity, solitude, and the universal language of land and light. The blurred textures and layered impressions mirror the way memory settles, like sediment, over time.
They ask not what we saw, but how we felt.
Pojagi Clothworks
The second body of work is a collaboration between Genna Shrosbree and Thembelihle Nodendwa, a member of her studio team at Beagle and Basset. Rooted in the Korean pojagi tradition of patchwork cloth, these textile pieces celebrate growth, resourcefulness, and the beauty of process. What began as a way to teach Thembi to sew became a deeply symbolic project, utilising every offcut , stitched together into something whole.
These clothworks speak to circular making and human development - learning, layering, growing. Just as Italian cooking uses every bone and scrap to make something rich and full, these works are metaphors for transformation - turning what might be discarded into art.
Together, the oil paintings and textile pieces offer two distinct expressions of presence. One gestural and shadowed, the other pieced and light-filled. They meet in the space between the remembered and the made, where form dissolves into feeling.
The way this piece treats memory and place really stuck with me—how a familiar room can feel comforting and menacing at once. Genna Shrosbee captures that uneasy gap between what we remember and what was actually there. It reminded me of horror visual novels where nostalgia becomes a trap, especially The False Sun, whose boy-meets-nightmare premise lives or dies on its endings. If you want to compare how branching dread works, this guide on how to get all 20 The False Sun endings is a useful companion.
Genna Shrosbee’s THE PLACE YOU REMEMBER really captures how a familiar landscape can feel both vivid and slippery, like you’re rebuilding it from fragments each time. The comments here add thoughtful layers, too. It made me think about how word associations work in a similar way—one clue shifts the shape of the next. If you enjoy that gentle mental wandering, I’ve been playing Poople Answer, a free endless word-ladder puzzle with no daily cap. It’s a nice little break between art reads.
Genna Shrosbee’s “The Place You Remember” makes a lovely point about how memory attaches itself to specific streets, rooms, and landscapes—often more vividly than the events that happened there. I like how the piece treats place not as a backdrop but as part of the feeling itself. It also made me think about how much we actually notice when we travel. If you enjoy testing that instinct, playworldguesser.com is a fun, free way to drop into random street views and guess where you are. A nice little exercise in visual memory.
Genna Shrosbee’s piece really lingers—the way a remembered place becomes both familiar and slightly distorted feels spot on. It made me think about how digital spaces can carry that same eerie nostalgia, especially low-poly environments where simple shapes leave room for memory to fill in the gaps. I’ve been exploring community-made courses that evoke that feeling, and this PolyTrack track codes list was a fun way to find more. Thanks for sharing the work and the thoughtful comments.
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