Episode notes
Abigail Rothery is a painter, drawer and printmaker based in nipaluna/Hobart. I met Abigail while she was visiting Joshua Santospirito during his residency in 2020. We quickly bonded over tampons and windows and again, promised to record a longer conversation when the time presented itself.
Abbie discusses arriving in Australia from the UK on Invasion Day, figuring out who and what you want to be, being an artist and badminton champ, fluidity, transience and loyalty, being interested in many different things, the importance of versatility, the intersection of exterior and interior, making your own garden, the politics of art school and diminishing returns, being a serial Queenstown visitor, coining the phrase “doing a Carl Ross” to describe artists moving to Queenstown, light, the role of technology in art making and her deep love of collab ...
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