Pastiche: Graydon Gallery New Farm 2-14 October 2012
Together with Cherie Durant, Russell Fuller, Jennii Gould, Sue Hill, Rose Moxham, Jenny Schuhart and Todd Whisson I am having an exhibition at Graydon Gallery New Farm. Pastiche: it’s all about the rhythm How do you put together the works of eight artists with no common theme, no unifying subject matter, and no common style? For a start, you give the show a name that reflects the heady mix of conjunctions, incongruities, the literal and the surreal. You call it Pastiche. “It’s a bit post post-modern,” says painter Joy McDonald, one of the exhibiting artists. “Truly a pastiche – we use different materials, we’re figurative, minimalist, abstract, there are story book illustrations, ceramics and sculptures.” “We’re a disparate bunch and we’re all mates,” says Todd Whisson, whose recent exhibition at Red Hill Gallery was a sell-out. “We talk to each other and bounce ideas around. Now we’ve come together in this exhibition and it’s our paintings that talk to each other.” The hang