Please join us for the launch of Richard Lewer’s ‘The stories that persist are not always true’ and James Dodd’s ‘SOUR DREAMS’ at Hugo Michell Gallery on Thursday 10th April, 6-8pm.
Richard Lewer
The stories that persist are not always true
The stories that persist are not always true
About this body of work, Richard shares: "We are perhaps the stories we tell ourselves – a curious blend of truth and invention. My vivid childhood memories intermingle with fragments of recurring dreams, unsettling and elusive. Current news stories blend with ancient fables told over centuries, with their tricksters, heroes and villains; their warnings, and moral lessons. The narratives accumulate, layer by layer. Laminex tabletops are designed to withstand the spills and stains of family life, wiped clean again and again. We gather to tell our stories around tables, I like to think the traces of human experience remain. Painting on this resistant surface is challenging; like memory, the paint slips, resists, leaving faint impressions.
James Dodd
SOUR DREAMS
SOUR DREAMS
The works in SOUR DREAMS arise from an ongoing exploration utilising a device conceived by Dodd known as 'The Painting Mill'. The final resulted paintings present as a refined, vivid and handsome object, charmingly finished in custom-coloured aluminium tray frames. James Dodd states “The Painting Mill outcomes are often saturated, saccharine, dense and fecund. I am regularly driven by colour, my own innate responses to colours and the potential to stimulate via intensity. States of amplification, hallucination and the hyper are all happy play zones for me. Whilst making these works, my imaginings have been towards psychological potentials of colours, psychic messaging of compositions and fantasies of juicy, shimmering psychedelic mirages. The titles for this suite of outcomes are deliberately visceral and explore colours as links to emotions, deep sensations, and the unconscious.”
Hugo Michell Gallery are proud to partner with Bird in Hand Winery for this opening event.
Hugo Michell Gallery acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide region, and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.
Please join us in celebrating the launch of these two exhibitions!