{One of many new collaborative collages Louise and I have created for Milly Sleeping to accompany a charm of finches.}
HIDDEN GEMS & ROUGH DIAMONDS
Two window installations by Gracia & Louise
Curated by Milly Sleeping
Part of the LookStopShop program
Curated by Moth Design
For the City of Melbourne
Starting July 18th
Through a small crack in the timber frame, here is a look at something Louise and I are currently working on, in follow up to yesterday’s tiny Hidden Gems & Rough Diamonds preview. We’re enjoying making new work and the rush of ideas that it brings in response to the theme.
In nod to the location of Milly sleeping in the maid's room, upstairs at Von Haus with S!X, the above collage features Eugene von Guérard’s Tower Hill (1855, in the collection of Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria). It also features Nina Youchkevitch in costume for Les Cent Baisers (photograph by Max Dupain, Home, 1937) gazing into a lake of rare and giant stars. ("Tower Hill is a lake-filled maar volcano known as a nested caldera with a group of scoria cones that form central islands, located near Koroit in Victoria's Western District, a site that supported a wonderful diversity of plant, bird and animal life." Ruth Pullin, Inexhaustible treasure: von Guérard in Australia, NGV Nature Revealed catalogue.)
Let the few who ... sympathise with nature, who love an undisturbed communion with the grand and the sublime, join one and all in securing for themselves and posterity the authorised declaration, that Tower Hill shall be an ever-lasting Reserve.
(James Bonwick, Western Victoria, Its Geography, Geology and Social Condition: The Narrative of an Educational Tour, 1970)
More soon. Promise.
