Tabitha Powles

I am excited to be showing new work in this exhibition 'Secrets'. The PV is 4th June between 6-8pm. Please come along, details on the flyer.

Tabitha's work is rooted in the human body, the intimacy and vulnerability. Drawing on her experience as an HIV nurse, palliative care nurse, soul midwife, and mother, she returns again to the same territories: attitudes towards women, motherhood, death, dying, and grief. These are not distant themes. They are drawn from the texture of her own life and from the lives of people she has sat with at their most exposed.
She works expressively and intuitively, painting and drawing as a way of figuring something out, repeating images, following gut instinct, letting meaning surface through the making.
Tabitha is interested in what people remember. A moment shared with another person, what the mind takes away, what it decides to keep, how memory distorts accuracy. Her drawings and paintings are an amalgamation: an object, a posture, an atmosphere, all in which build a scene.The drawing or painting is an attempt to recreate the moment.
This current series focuses on grief and mortality. The paintings are acts of witness, drawn from her memory of individuals she encountered as a community palliative care nurse.