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.