SHE DOES NOT FIT THE FRAME

Anita DeSoto returns to Stoddart Cottage Gallery to exhibit work from her 2025 residency. 

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She Does Not Fit the Frame features a series of miniature local seascapes and a suite of small-scale portraits of colonial women, in DeSoto's lush, expressionistic style, which contemplate the erasure of women's experiences and perspectives across time.

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DeSoto's spectral, ghost-like characters are painted escaping the confines of their frames, through expressive brushwork and layered washes. The walls of Stoddart buzz and murmur with the gaze of women, turned on the audience. Once quieted voices, reasserting themselves with new authority.

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Anita DeSoto's exhibition, She Does Not Fit the Frame, opens on Saturday January the 31st at 4pm. Anita will give an artist floor talk on Sunday the 1st of February, at 4pm. All welcome.