Installation
My current exhibition at 146 Abercrombie Street Redfern is a collaboration between my gallery, Australian Galleries and The Commercial Gallery.
Is it possible that a set of values embraced in one's formative years can be sustained over a lifetime?
Can the extent of the viability of those values overwhelm new ideas and values that emerge over time?
Can one moment in history inspire values that other moments in history cannot?
History would indicate that was quite possible.
It is possible that there are values that can be sustained, only if the upholding of those values is equal in power to the values held. Holding values out of belief, out of doggedness, may not be equal to the power of the ideas initially embraced. In that instance, the values are not adequately sustained.
The present is always determined to unseat the past, in order to establish its rule. The past is a sitting duck to the present's hunger. The past is not as well lit as the present. Amnesia and absentmindedness quieten a determination to assert. Young muscle, the chemicals in the body, 20/20 vision, a social appetite combine persuasively against an older argument.
In an ideal world the loss of the elements of the young is replaced by other qualities which can be equally productively applied.
Naturally it is this condition to which I aspire.
My current exhibition at 146 Abercrombie Street Redfern is a collaboration between my gallery, Australian Galleries and The Commercial Gallery.
The venue is a short term rental space suited to this new work.