May Space Gallery 20 March to 6 April
In Light on Nostalgia, Peta Minnici explores the emotional resonance of memory through still life and interior-based compositions. Anchored in personal history, each painting is drawn from objects, photographs, and places that serve as vessels of recollection. Rather than offering a direct representation, Minnici’s use of delicate brushwork and nuanced colour seeks to fragment the image — dissolving form into tonal impressions that evoke the atmospheric nature of remembrance.
These works are not simply depictions, but quiet records of lived experience. Each mark operates both symbolically and sensorily — a meditation on what has been seen, felt, and held. The series was prompted by the recent loss of a figure central to the artist’s life, whose presence continues to haunt and shape the narrative structure of the work.
Balancing wistfulness with restraint, Minnici offers a vision of nostalgia imbued with tenderness, intimacy, and occasional irony — never collapsing fully into melancholy.
