Exhibitions at Linden 29 September - 5 November 2006

Action graffiti - political intrigue - exploring the bizarre

Five new exhibitions open at Linden
6pm Thursday 28 September 2006

Penelope Trotter's installation Narcissus of Liberty in gallery 1 explores gender politics and power relationships. The work investigates the way fantasy, grown from gossip and media articles, can work as a form of empowerment for the disenfrancised.

Provocative election style posters based on John Howard and George W. Bush are used by Migs in Terror Australis, gallery 2 to expose the way fear and greed are used to manufacture truth in the media. Visitors at the opening will be invited to graffiti the works as a form of public expression.

Jason Waterhouse will install a '60s style caravan in gallery 3 for his exhibition Van. This Australian icon of escape is stripped of adornment and function and without wheels, or any means to drag it away, is trapped within the Victorian grandeur of Linden.

Sheep in gallery 4, by Louisa Jenkinson explores the bizarre and unusual. This work offers a momentary lapse out of the vacuous nature of everyday life. For a brief moment the rules of normality are changed and the encounter becomes an exploration into possibilities and curious anomalies.

For Dispace six artists, Josh Daniel, Susan Reddrop, Jonas Ropponen, Beth Arnold, Laura Woodward, Sary Zananiri respond to each other's work in the very confined space of gallery 5. The works will be created and installed one at a time with the intention of altering the audience and artists' interactions with the space during the exhibition period.

 

 

 


Penelope Trotter


Migs


Jason Waterhouse


Louisa Jenkinson


Dispace