CASA/HOUSE: at the Edge of the Blue Mountains by Gaia Starace
DECEMBER 11-21
CASA / HOUSE: at the Edge of the Blue Mountains is an intimate collection of abstract paintings, sculptures, and ceramic pieces that explore memory, interiority, and the quiet emotional landscapes we carry within us. Rooted in the idea of casa/house as both a physical and psychological space, the exhibition traces how homes are built not only from architecture, but from sensations, colours, and fragments of personal history.
Soft, gestural mark-making and layered abstraction form the foundation of the paintings, while several works feature delicate pastel-drawn vessels, emerging intuitively like meditative echoes of ancient amphoras or remembered domestic objects. Alongside the canvases, a selection of hand-built ceramics and sculptural forms introduces a grounded, tactile presence, moving fluidly between utility and sculpture, reflecting the quiet rituals of care, touch, and making that define a lived interior world.
Presented at GANG GANG Gallery, perched where the industrial history of Lithgow meets the vast expanse of the Blue Mountains, the exhibition creates a dialogue between inner and outer worlds. The rugged terrain of Lithgow, with its shifting light and deep valleys, resonates with the interior landscapes evoked in the work, forming an atmospheric counterpoint to the abstracted home. Together, the paintings and ceramics inhabit a space that is tender, poetic, and alive with memory, an invitation to pause, to feel, and to dwell within both the imagined and the real.
CASA / HOUSE at the Edge of the Blue Mountains becomes a contemplative dwelling: a house made of gesture, colour, and memory, open for viewers to inhabit, interpret, and feel.
BIO
Gaia Starace is a Rome-born, Sydney-based artist, architect, and educator whose multidisciplinary practice blends classical rigor with contemporary experimentation and playful sensitivity to site and material. Her works are both conceptual and sensorial, inviting viewers to look beyond the surface.
Moving fluidly between sculpture, painting, installation, photography, textile, and drawing, she creates immersive compositions that bridge the physical world with inner landscapes of memory, identity, and spirituality.
Beyond her studio practice, Starace is also an interior designer and educator, currently teaching Interior Design at TAFE NSW Enmore and Arts and Cultural Administration at TAFE NSW Ultimo, where she mentors the next generation of spatial thinkers and cultural practitioners.
OPENING EVENT – Saturday December 13th from 2pm
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
CASA/HOUSE at the Edge of the Blue mountain with Gaia Starace.
Opening this Thursday at Gang Gang Gallery.
WHEN: 11 Dec – 21 Dec 2025WHERE: Gang Gang Gallery, 206 Main St, Lithgow NSW 2790OPENING: Saturday, Dec 13 from 2 pm with Italian wine, home-made food, and live painting performance by Gaia Starace
CASA / HOUSE presents an intimate body of work of abstract paintings and hand-built ceramics that trace the contours of memory, interiority, and the subtle atmospheres we inhabit.
FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
An intimate, heartfelt retrospective curated by daughter and artist Zenta Zenbergs, LOVE and ART brings together three creative lives in conversation: Zenta’s late mother Anita Rezevska, a distinguished painter and printmaker of Latvian heritage, and her father Antony Symons, the celebrated sculptor whose public bronzes are part of the region’s visual memory. The show is both a tribute and a family archive — an invitation to witness how love, loss and lineage shape artistic practice across media and generations.
PAST XHIBITIONS
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