Naomi Lawler

Fine Art and Illustration

NOSTALGIA

This exhibition is a collection of paintings exploring the connection between grief and nostalgia. My brother held on to a lot of toys and objects from our childhood and a few years after his death I found myself looking through them and wanting to catalogue them somehow. The idea for this exhibition was born.

It started as a way of documenting and revisiting our childhood through a lens of nostalgia but as my concept continued to develop, I became interested in the idea that nostalgia is often born from grief. Gradually the artworks became more about my own personal journey of grief and what that looks like moving forward.

Working through these themes in my art has been extremely helpful and cathartic while (I hope) honouring Nathan’s memory and his influence on my artistic practice.

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