Please join us for the launch of Sera Waters’ ‘Collared & Cuffed’ and Sally Bourke’s ‘I’m a ghost, I’m gone’ at Hugo Michell Gallery on Thursday 16th April, 6-8pm.
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SERA WATERS
Collared & Cuffed
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SERA WATERS
Collared & Cuffed
About this new body of work, Sera writes: “These artworks dwell in entangled lineages from the 1930s. Specifically, they respond to translated German family letters written in the lead up to and aftermath of World War II, between my great grandparents and their children (two in Australia, and one in an English prisoner of war camp). As a descendant living in differently alarming times, grappling with how my ancestors reckoned, survived, acted and witnessed, propels this body of work.
To be collared and cuffed infers dressing finely, tidily and smartly, as well as being restricted and controlled by conventions, or worse, by those wielding power. Collars and cuffs are also textile sites where bodies emerge, and grime and stains congregate, revealing the messy human goings on under neatened outward appearances.”
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SALLY BOURKE
I’m a ghost, I’m gone
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SALLY BOURKE
I’m a ghost, I’m gone
Sally Bourke’s latest exhibition ‘I’m a ghost, I’m gone’ features a suite of her beguiling and idiosyncratic portraits; rendered through expressive brushstrokes, abstracted forms, and a kaleidoscope of colours.
About the works, Sally shares: “The show is about becoming invisible. Maybe it’s age. But in turn, it gives the power to be a real observer. And see the real human you’re looking at. Even yourself.”
She draws on an archive of personal memory and internal experience to create characters that feel both familiar and strange.
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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.