“Although Tracy paints pictures of
people walking into the sea, you know that this is a slightly dreamlike
scenario, but it is also about an internal state, about loneliness, the
possibility of self destruction. But for me that’s almost too bleak for them, I
liken them to perhaps Corbet or Casper David Fredrick’s “ Figure on the
mountaintop” This is the figure poised between being and not being…. on the
edge of consciousness which is a slightly more positive way of looking at
humanity in the great void, the great cosmos.”
Antony Bond, Assistant director
of AGNSW
Tracy Dods’s paintings
merge acute social observation with poignant symbolic metaphor to illuminate the
heart of the contemporary condition. The results are expressed in colours which
are bold, true and beautiful.Her work
is thoroughly infused with her unequivocal commitment to human freedom.She is an artist for our time.