Nell Pearson and Matthew Brooks - Blue Island

Meeting at art school in Melbourne, Nell and Matthew have since become life partners, sharing their home, studio and, more recently, parenthood.

They live and work in the Northern Rivers, where they continue a lifelong conversation about art and carry out their painting practices side by side and sometimes together. In the domestic space, small gestures of the everyday entangle with artmaking so that the making and the living happen on the same plane.

This exhibition celebrates two distinct visual languages, which, like trees in a forest standing apart but whose roots are entangled, share a private intimacy.