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‘The Antipodes in Words and Pictures’ by Gosia Lapinski and Michal Lapinski – online exhibition

‘The Antipodes in Words and Pictures’ is a community exhibition featuring artist Gosia Lapinski and poet Michal Lapinski. A collaboration between father and daughter, this exhibition explores the experience of leaving behind all that is familiar and making a new home in an unknown place. 

Through image and verse, Gosia and Michal illustrate their first impressions of their new home in Australia after leaving Poland when Gosia was a child in the 1980s during martial law. Inspired by Michal’s poetry and using digital techniques to intertwine mediums, Gosia depicts each subject as a painting and drawing, speaking to the experiences of a person seeing home from multiple perspectives, none fully resolving or obscuring each other. 

‘The Antipodes in Words and Pictures’ is an exhibition exploring immersion in a fascinating environment full of discoveries, warmth, and beauty, as well as alienation, distance, and loss.

Image credit: Gosia Lapinski, ‘Arrivals’, 2023, watercolour, pencil and digital processes, 29.7 x 42 cm, image courtesy of the artist.

Landscape artwork created from pencil. In the foreground there is a family of two adults and two children. They are looking at a large mountain range in the distance. The artwork is in black and white.
Gosia Lapinski, 'Arrivals', 2023, pencil, 44 x 56cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Landscape artwork created from watercolour. The image depicts a large mountain range in the distance. The sky is blue, the mountains are ochre, the hills in front of the mountains are green, and the land in the foreground is brown.
Gosia Lapinski, 'Arrivals', 2023, watercolour, 44 x 56cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Black and white drawing of a tree. The perspective is from the ground looking up at the tree. The tree has no leaves, the branches resemble cracked, dry, earth, and the bark has peeled off towards the top half of the tree.
Gosia Lapinski, 'Tree', 2023, pencil, 56 x 44cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Watercolour painting of a tree. The perspective is from the ground looking up at the tree against a blue sky. The tree has green, sparse leaves, and the bark has peeled off towards the top half of the tree. The colour of the bark is varied shades of dark and light brown.
Gosia Lapinski, 'Tree', 2023, watercolour, 56 x 44cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Black and white drawing of lizard creatures in tall grass. The main creature has a lizard head and a human body wearing a t-shirt and shorts. The second creature’s face is obscured by the blades of grass but has long hair and all human features except for a lizard tail. Both creatures are wading through the grass, as if they were as small as skinks.
Gosia Lapinski, 'Lizard Kids', 2023, pencil, 44 x 56cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Watercolour painting of lizard creatures in tall green grass. The main creature has a yellow and black lizard head and a human body wearing a purple t-shirt and shorts. The second creature’s face is obscured by the blades of grass but has brown hair and all human features except for a yellow and black lizard tail. Both creatures are wading through the grass, as if they were as small as skinks.
Gosia Lapinski, 'Lizard Kids', 2023, watercolour, 44 x 56cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Black and white drawing of the shadow of a man in a backyard. The man’s shadow takes up the majority of the backyard’s lawn and is wearing a military uniform with the Polish army’s emblem appearing on his cap. In the distance are suburban homes and a tall powerline. The night sky is black, and the figure’s shadow is ominous.
Gosia Lapinski, 'Big Head', 2023, pencil, 44 x 56cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Watercolour painting of the shadow of a man in a backyard. The man’s shadow takes up the majority of the backyard’s lawn and is wearing a military uniform with the Polish army’s emblem appearing on his cap. In the distance are suburban homes and a tall powerline. The night sky is black, the yard and the homes are purple, and the figure’s shadow is ominous.
Gosia Lapinski, 'Big Head', 2023, watercolour, 44 x 56cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Black and white drawing of a shark under water. The perspective of the work is looking down at the shark. The shark is black and featureless as the water ripples above it.
Gosia Lapinski, 'Shark', 2023, pencil, 44 x 56cm, image courtesy of the artist.
Watercolour painting of a shark under water. The perspective of the work is looking down at the shark. The shark is dark blue and featureless as the water ripples above it, forming white foam that obscures the shark in places.
Gosia Lapinski, 'Shark', 2023, watercolour, 44 x 56cm, image courtesy of the artist.

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