THE LITTLE DEATH

COLLAGIST - THE GALLERY PREMISES
Curated by Leigh-Anne Niehaus

Our most common daily escape is sleep. We can lose our Selves in dreams, in nightmares, in orgasm (la petite mort - the little death)

Inspired by distinctive nightmare features of Dark Romanticism (the supernatural, the incubus, the horse, subversive love, death) these collage pieces relate to our current promiscuous age: contemporary eroticism. A surreal perverse multiform. We wish to liberate our Selves from the terrors - or understand the terrors that never leave us.

STAG NIGHT MARE - 297mm x 420mm - Collage on albanene vellum

O, SCENT OF OUR SADDLEBACK SMEGMA - 297mm x 420mm - Collage on albanene vellum

SO STRICT - 297mm x 420mm - Collage on albanene vellum

PLEASE DON’T CRY - 297mm x 420mm - Collage on albanene vellum

THE GELDING SHOWER - 297mm x 420mm - Collage on albanene vellum

VERY VERY YOUNG - 297mm x 420mm - Collage on albanene vellum

THOUGHT TRAFFIC

THOUGHT TRAFFIC - THE GALLERY PREMISES
Curated by Brenden Gray & Leigh-Anne Niehaus
30 june - 28 july 2007

“Thought Traffic” is an informal exhibition that consists of contemporary artists who produce drawings within the context of the everyday. The body of work illustrates the ways in which drawing permeates artists’ experience of daily life: image-making invades agenda’s, minutes, colonises the margins of official documents, takes possession of envelopes, serviettes, and plagues diaries and personal organisers.

PORTRAITS OF THE ABSURD MAN

The Absurd man is powerless to calm his anguish. He does not attempt to escape his condition. The Absurd man is fed with indifference to live without hope or appeal. He is innocent because sin has no meaning. He accepts despair as an ultimate freedom.

THE STRANGER (LATER DUDE) - 210mm x 297mm - Colour marker on munken pure

THE OUTSIDER (COOL GUY) - 210mm x 297mm - Colour marker on munken pure

SKETCHES