10 - 13 September 2015
about the exhibition
This year, we are showing a solo exhibition of new work from Lucienne Rickard, whose extraordinary graphite drawings on drafting film have drawn much acclaim. We have taken Lucienne’s work to both Sydney Contemporary and the Melbourne Art Fair previously and she was one of 13 young artists featured in Primavera last year at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. This body of work stems from an extended stay on Lord Howe Island last year. In her words, “I am continuing to explore the themes of beauty, death, brutality and obsession, with all of the current work stemming from a trip to Lord Howe Island last year. My grandmother’s family came from the island and still have a family home there. Through this work, I consider what life on the island would have been like for my forebears. I find myself preoccupied with the pervasive presence of death in an isolated, basic life. Some works explore the gradual accumulative death reflected in the small actions woven into daily life and others, the aggressive chasing and confronting of death with activities like shark fishing that took place on the island.”
