Etesian presents Soft Volumes, a beautiful group show featuring four female artists who all have form, colour and material at the centre of their practice.
Hannah Carrick (b. 1988, Australia) is a Byron Bay–based artist whose practice explores biophilia, the innate connection between humans and nature and the healing potential of the creative process. Her work invites introspection, weaving together themes of femininity, emotion, and the body as landscape. Working primarily with oil and mixed media, Carrick builds and erodes layers of colour and texture, scraping back surfaces to reveal what lies beneath. This intuitive, physical process mirrors an inner excavation, where painting becomes a ritual of uncovering, release, and renewal. Her works evoke warmth and nostalgia while holding space for emotional openness and reflection.
Celia Gullet is an Australian painter exhibiting in Etesian for the first time in Europe. Her works contain a level of subtlety and precision that leaves the viewer with an immediate sense of appeasement and fascination. As soon as I entered her studio there was no question on the beauty and resonance of her works. The diffused light and a kind of glow which emanates from them, along with the visibility of the deep texture of the surface of linen makes them feel almost fresco-like, a nod to 14th century European art, which Gullett refers to.
Meritxell Claverol is a visual artist from Pallars Jussà, Catalonia who lives in Los Angeles. These amazing paper mache pieces were made whilst on residency with Etesian last year in Ciutadella. Claverol brings her own modern twist to what is a medium rich with deep historical context, with its adoption in the creation of many notable pieces from elaborate Victorian furnishings to the famous Japanese Kirtsune masks. At the centre of her practice is the notion of cyclic nature of the material being used.
