Tag: Warm Ties

Warm Ties

Helen Johnson

By Snack Syndicate — 19 January, 2018

This text is in dialogue with Helen Johnson’s Warm Ties (Artspace). The exhibition, comprising six paintings, critically reimagines scenes of settlement and its afterlife in Australia. Major and minor histories are layered on large-scale canvases – theatrical backgrounds that make the viewer a player.   Hand The figurative finger or index of epistemic anxiety. One…