Bodies Undone

Bodies Undone 16 June - 15 July 2018  

Reception and catalogue launch Friday 29 June, 6 - 8.30pm  

Bodies Undone finds the figure in an unravelled state. This drawing, painting and sculpture show reveals the body broken down with its emotions hanging out. Layering and slicing of information fragments the figures, allowing them to morph between the real and the imagined self/other.     

"The body is often described in art in terms of its objecthood, but as a cultural site linking many disciplines and branches of thought it might be imagined as protean territory that is never ‘done’ and cannot be mapped in a singular fashion. In the connective tissue between the humanities and the sciences are innumerable individual human stories, feeding different forms of study and, down the line, re-informing collective experience. It’s the gristly interstices between the knowledge of what we are (complex biological machines, thinkers, workers, creators, friends, lovers, baby makers) and the experiences that shape who we are, which appear of particular interest to Sarah Gillham, Mindy Lee, Susan Sluglett and Paul Westcombe." Rebecca Geldard