Jo Barrett’s paintings have a substance about them that comes only with time spent. This feeling of time and presence, wrought in rich layers of paint, perfectly compliments the abstract-landscape genre Jo has explored in her past two solo exhibitions.

Barrett’s inherent understanding of form allows meditations on division to filter through her painterly textures and cut softly into the subconscious. The paintings speak, like the land of the way they have been slowly divided, cut through, built up or scraped back over time.

These works explore the age old practice of defining territories using natural landmarks or building onto the land to identify where boundaries begin and end. This universal language of separation gives a sense of belonging to one area or another as it relates to communities, tribes, suburbs, cities or countries.

Despite establishing a relationship with ones own space and creating separation from another (through language, inscriptions or landmarks); at one point the spaces will always connect. This exhibition is an exploration of those connecting or separating lines and the importance invested in spaces, boundaries or landmarks.