As a young child, artist Janet Dawson learned to see the world through her mother’s eyes, the eyes of a woman who could find wonder in both the cosmos and the kitchen.
“She took me out in the early evening and explained the moon,” Dawson recalls, graciously holding court from her wheelchair at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) on Friday. “She taught me that the moon had a job to do – to rise and to return. She gave it purpose, and so I watched it carefully and waited for it every night.”
