I really love the notes which accompany the video work, “Billenium Waves”, by the artist, Tang Nannan, “Waves are the mountains of the sea” he says “and mountains are the waves of the land. They just rise and fall at different rates”. How cool is that? It’s one of three favourite works of mine in the current exhibition, “The Dark Matters” at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery.… Read the rest “The Dark Matters at Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery”
As I’ve mentioned, I’m a huge fan of Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery.
Dedicated to works made in the 21st century, the White Rabbit Collection is owned by Judith Neilson, who was inspired to establish it on a 2001 trip to Beijing.
“What was your favourite work?”, I asked my friend Sue as we walked away from Sydney’s “White Rabbit Gallery” this afternoon. “It was definitely the video work”, she told me. I had to agree. It’s a beautiful work. Over the course of maybe twenty or thirty minutes, you sit there in a darkened room and watch an artist take delivery of some large stacks of clay, and proceeds to turn those stacks into a human sculpture.… Read the rest “Heavy Artillery at White Rabbit”
A new exhibition at White Rabbit gallery in Sydney is something I always anticipate. There’s such a large collection to draw upon, and which is constantly being added to, so you never know what you might get to see. Here’s a selection of the excellent work in the current exhibition. Video, sculpture, neon, you name it.… Read the rest “White Rabbit”
There are a couple of really stunning video works in the exhibition, LandSeaSky currently showing at the National Art School in Sydney.
The one that really caught my attention, appealed to both my head and my heart, was a work called Littoral (2014) by Derek Kreckler. As you walk into the space on the second floor, images of large waves at sea are projected onto vertical blinds.… Read the rest “Gallery Crawl”
I spent the day hanging out with my friend Sue. After a bit of a sleep in, and then some breakfast, we headed off for a day of galleries, food, and generally hanging out.
