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JOANNA GAMBOTTO
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  • ABOUT
  • PAINTING
    • WEAVING A TALE 2025
    • MORE IS MORE 2024
    • ANOTHER BUNCH OF FLOWERS 2023
    • DREAMSCAPES 2022
    • ART STUDIOS 2020-21
    • HILL END 2019-20
  • DRAWING
    • 2025-26
    • DELUGE 2022
    • COMMON THREAD 2022
    • ART STUDIOS – ETCHINGS 2020-21
    • INTERIOR FUSION 2020-21
    • HILL END 2020
  • SCULPTURE
    • CAT-ASTROPHE 2026
  • AVAILABLE WORKS
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Deluge

2022

Recent Russian aggression in Ukraine is something I’ve been following closely, having been born and raised in Poland. I travelled to Poland shortly after the war broke out and witnessed one of the biggest refugee crises in Europe in the last century. Arrival of trains filled with people, pouring out into the platforms, flooding Polish cities. Thousands of refugees fleeing war, searching for asylum. The ground under their feet appears to sway and twist as they descend into the unknown, having left all that’s familiar behind.

Dobell Drawing Prize #23 finalist
Deluge, charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper, 200 x 200 cm, 2022
Deluge, detail, charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper, 200 x 200 cm, 2022
Deluge, detail, charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper, 200 x 200 cm, 2022
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