Five new exhibitions open at Linden
6pm Thursday 27 April
Cecilia Fogelberg's installation Bird Mountain Valley explores notions of personal
identity and exile. The artist transforms gallery 1 into a place where cultural icons, contemporary
mythological heroes and gender issues are questioned and revealed. The work explores the dark forests
of fables and fairy tales, where the roles of the characters have been reversed, the prey has killed
its hunter, and no one is walking safely.
Grant Hill's series of paintings Home and Not Very Far Away in gallery 2 records
the artist's research into the relationship between Australian culture and the landscape. Depicting generic
suburban houses and scenes of Australian bush, Grant's paintings explore the physical, emotional and spiritual
connections between Australian cultural heritage and the landscape.
Mantelpiece in gallery 3 draws on Penny Byrne's skills as a ceramicist,
ceramics conservator and astute social and political observer to "bastardise" ceramic figurines. Amalgams
of antique ceramic figurines pose as precious objects in an exhibition that draws on popular culture and
politics and subverts the ethics of art conservation.
Dolphin Homes Presents the Settler Estates by Jamie Boys in gallery 4 combines
scale models, paintings, a hot air balloon and theme music to mimic an estate showroom for potential buyers
and investors. This installation focuses on the concept of 'design', and the way impractical objects enter our
lives and take on a life of their own.
Andrew Goodman's exhibition Flibbertigibbet in gallery 5 is a soft sculpture
assemblage of mutated body parts; a crossbreed of "Hello Kitty" rejects meets Dr Seuss gone wrong on a moonlit night.
The exhibition is a frivolous and frilly congress of festival lanterns and butcher shop off cuts, a stripy pink
organism seeking the caress of an eye.
All exhibitions continue until Sunday 28 May 2006
Gallery hours are Tuesday - Sunday 1.00pm - 6.00pm.
For further information and/or images please contact
Jan Duffy on 9209 6794 or
email info@lindenarts.org
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