OPENING: Friday 18 Sept 6 - 9pm | DATES: 17 Sept - 2 Oct 2015

OPENING NIGHT PICS I  EXHIBITION PICS

FRONT GALLERY

FROM POLIPANDA WITH LOVE!
Ying Huang

Ying Huang’s show provides a continued exploration of the Polipanda or Political Pop Propaganda Art practice developed in her earlier work. Polipanda, a hybrid practice combining Chinese political propaganda art and Pop art, explores how history is manipulated through mass media images and challenges us to rethink notions of authenticity and originality. Inspired by iconic images from film, photography and other cultural media, Huang recontextualises these images through her own lived experience of a negotiated cultural identity. Although often still recognisable, the images are unsettling, providing only a trace or imprint of their origins, their meaning altered and taking on a life of their own. Playful, rebellious, humorous, yet providing unflinching and unapologetic commentary on the world of mass media images in which we live, From Polipanda With Love! takes viewers on a light-hearted tour of the art world, prompting us to re-encounter our taken-for-granted experiences of ‘art’, everyday life, and popular culture. 

BACK GALLERY

THE TIDE TURNS
Paul Dew

Where lays hope in life and work and how long could you remain in a room full of manufactured rats? Overwhelmed within this river of repetitive production, the voice and actions of a child extends hope of the future. The making of the rats along the way has been a necessary evil from which it is now time to escape...