This exhibition takes place on the lands of the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh language region. The works for this exhibition were created on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and the Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples and developed and finalised on the lands of the Kombumerri and Tulgigin families where I currently live and work. My deepest respects and gratitude belong with the Traditional Custodians of these lands, to Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.
The city is the therapist trying to tell me how to sleep is a series of oil and watercolour paintings by Meg Stoios. The works use figurative and expressive abstracted imagery to unpack personal and shared traumas, revealing the psycho-scapes of interpersonal relationships. The largely autobiographical scenes undermine patriarchal expectations, Australian cultural/political complexes and tap into the lyrical and the literary.
The title alludes to the artist’s relationship to the Gold Coast where the majority of the works were completed.
I can't cure the grid; 2019, Watercolour on paper, 56.9 x 76.6cm, $550
People Who Love and People Who Hate; 2022, Oil on canvas, 81.5 x 106.5cm, $3,100
The world of objects to be judged; 2021, Oil on canvas, 110 x 140cm, $4,000
Eye on the Orb; 2022, Oil on canvas, 94 x 133 cm, $3,100
Rebirth; the Walk from Tottenham to West Footscray; 2023, Oil on canvas, 92 x 122cm, $3,100
Election Results on TV. Mother and Child; 2023, Watercolour on paper, 41.7 x 59.3 cm, $380
Jealousy (in Apollo Bay); 2022, Oil on canvas, 81.5 x 106.5cm , $3,100
Repeated As If It Were True; 2019, Watercolour on paper, 56.9 x 76.6cm, $550