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may 6 - 23 2009
opening night drinks thursday, may 7, 6-8pm
about last night ...
Debbie Hill’s latest series of works delves into a mysterious realm of childhood memories, inexplicable occurrences and ‘things that go bump in the night’. Each piece imagines the unknown events and conflicts that might occur around us while we are sleeping, absorbed in a world of dreams.
Inspired by the ‘night vision’ footage captured during international military conflicts, about last night continues Hill’s long-standing exploration into ‘events that transpire everyday but that cannot always be explained’. Featuring toys from her childhood and objects that reflect her life today, Hill’s intimate vignettes bring unseen narratives to light.
the funambulists
working a thin line
The work of Kate Zizys and Massimo Palombo explores a common philosophical ground, an interest in our society and the people immersed in it.
Funambulists is the second collaboration between these two artists, and it presents a body of work that is visually absorbing as well as intellectually provocative. The exhibition consists of oil paintings and printmaking, traditional techniques to represent contemporary culture.
Don't leave home if you don't have to
Aitken’s ‘imaginary friends’ are inhabitants of a fabricated world; a landscape crafted from twilight spaces, cobbled together with bits and pieces of reality. Her hybrid sculptures inhabit the gallery like creatures from another dimension, recalling visions of things only half-glimpsed.
Don’t Leave Home if You Don’t Have To offers a contemporary perspective on our relationship to ‘the world outside’. As Aitken has noted, ‘much of contemporary life takes place in interior spaces. The ‘outside world’ is often experienced through a window or a screen or through bars – engagement is vicarious and safe.’
In this exhibition, Aitken’s creatures have slipped through the safety nets to arrive at an in-between zone. With their mongrel, chimera-like forms, her works question our desire to consume the wilderness around us from the safety of familiar shores.
