Whispers of Autumn - Yellow Key

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Janice Gobey is a Melbourne based artist working in both Painting and Installation. She graduated from the Victorian College of Arts with a Masters in Visual Arts. With undergraduate studies in Psychology and Sociology, her work has focused on exploring subjects such as broken marriages, love, toxic masculinity, anger and more recently healing through nature.

Gobey has dedicated time to painting en plein air in Spain, France and Melbourne. Her interest lies in Jung’s exploration of nature and its potential to heal our overwhelmed systems amidst the current state of the world. She believes that being in nature and communing with animals can have a therapeutic effect.

Many of the animals that capture Gobey’s interest hold significant symbolic meaning.

She was selected as one of the artists for the Linden New Art Innovators program as well as curated exhibitions such as The f Word at Ararat Rural Gallery, Fixation at the Town Hall Gallery and the f Generation at George Paton Gallery.

Gobey was shortlisted for the Kennedy Art Prize, the Wyndham Art Prize, the Sunshine Coast Art Prize as well as the Toyota Community Spirit Sculpture Prize and has participated in numerous international residencies such as Chateau Orquevaux, France, NG Creative Art Residency in Provence, the Leipzig International Artist Programme in Germany, the London Summer Intensive, a joint residency between The Slade and Camden Arts Centre, Summer Painting Intensive at the School of Visual Arts, New York; Point B, New York and Takt, Berlin.