Coastal Signs is pleased to present Molly & Lucky, a solo exhibition by Georgette Brown comprising new large-scale canvases and compositions in stained glass.

The paintings in Molly & Lucky depict scenes from an interior world inspired by intuition, in particular moments in which the boundaries between forms and forces blur. Brown's images are both of self-portraits and dreamscapes that feature humans and animals as cosmic companions. In the painting Drinking with Molly & Lucky (2022) a figure on hands and knees laps from a mosaic bowl accompanied by a pair of pig-like dogs. In another, The only way out of this is through (2022), a winged figure cradles a small, snouted creature under a mosaic sun.

Around Brown’s figures, moss creeps, mushrooms spawn, and spider webs gather. Like the spiral in Brown's earlier work, the spider web in Molly & Lucky is a symbol of time and interconnectedness that is produced by both human and non-human makers. For Cello's web (2023) fractured glass is mended into a web-like geometry - the alchemies of spiders' silk and stained glass collapsed to produce a new composition and throw prisms of light through the gallery.

The exhibition at Coastal Signs is accompanied by a text by Cello Forrester, available in the gallery and online following the opening.

Georgette Brown (b. 1988) completed a BFA at Massey University in 2013 and is currently based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Recent exhibitions include: At Thresholds, City Gallery Wellington (2022); I See Mycelium / I Hear the Sound of Breaking Glass, Blue Oyster Project Space, Ōtepoti Dunedin (2022); Fire-lit Kettle, Enjoy Contemporary, Wellington (2020); Petit à Petit, Neo Gracie, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (2020). Georgette plays the drums in the band Womb with her siblings, Cello and Hazzie.