By Carolyn Burns — 10 November, 2017
A cheerful appliqué banner reading ‘The hooved and the clawed will consider their violent bond’ welcomes visitors to Katy B Plummer’s exhibition currently showing at Galerie pompom. Through a series of video and multimedia works, Plummer tells of an allegorical romance between a lion and a lamb: where the lion, dressed in a vaguely zoomorphic…
By Naomi Riddle — 3 November, 2017
For all its beauty, Sydney’s Observatory Hill is a site steeped in colonial history. On the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation – land that was never ceded – Fort Phillip was built in 1800. It was an important signal station and military outpost before Sydney Observatory was constructed in 1858. Now…
By Naomi Riddle — 16 October, 2017
Twelve screens arranged in single file around the gallery space display scenes from Tokyo. One shows a woman walking her dog in a park, the next a swing set, another an almost-still image of flowers in a vase. Some are instantly recognisable as Tokyo’s urban landscape; others are just everyday objects – the mundane and…
By Naomi Riddle — 12 October, 2017
‘Please do not touch’ announces the forthright sign, standing to attention at the entrance of Mikala Dwyer’s exhibition A shape of thought. In the gallery beyond lies a smorgasbord of options for the unfettered hand: a collection of copper pipe elbows, stones, coins, sunshine yellow fabric; steel and aluminium and plastic sculptures that have been…