Scanning earlier work when I'd rather be looking forward, here, as an antidote, a look at a new collaborative print by Gracia and me. (Remember this?) And Zarafa Kept Walking is one of several new works we will be exhibiting for our part of In Your Dreams.
In Your Dreams
Stephen Bush, Michael Doolan, Daniel Dorall, William Eicholtz, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Dylan Martorell, Steaphan Paton, Kate Rohde, Kate Shaw, Sally Smart, Van Sowerwine & Isobel Knowles, Yandell Walton, Sharon West
Curated by Edwina Bartlem and Victor Griss
9th of May to 8th of June
In Your Dreams explores fantastic worlds and imaginary creatures through a range of media including sculpture, diorama, painting, printmaking, collage, artist’s books, video projection, ambient sound and interactive artwork. It engages the senses, creating an environment to spark the imagination of children and the young-at-heart. Many artworks have whimsical or surreal qualities of dreams, fairy tales and fables, and like many folkloric tales, occasionally a dark or cautionary quality. Ideas of cuteness, reality, history, power and belonging are introduced through various formal and symbolic devices. Several artists play with scale drawing the viewer into a miniature world overshadowed by colossal creations, generating awe and wonder. Alternatively the viewer can play the role of the giant, observing the drama and curiosity of a Lilliputian world.
And closing on the 15th of March, Draw Me A Story — The Art of Children's Book Illustration, at Maroondah Art Gallery. The exhibition includes Gracia's brand new artists' books As if from the clouds, restless (2014), The Loon of Swan Hill seeks an audience (2014), and Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar (2014), and editions of As inclination directs (2013) and Sleeping during the day (2010) too. We popped along to the gallery the other day to see G's Swiss Alps now fully unfurled with my parents (who are appearing more and more in my instagram feed and I hope they don't mind).
