D11 at DOCKLANDS

STRANGE ATTRACTOR

 

Featuring:

Grant HILL

Ben HOWE

Paul KELLER

(front gallery)

 

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;” So runs a line from a poem by W. B Yeats that imagines the earthly conditions which prefigure the Apocalypse and the Christian second coming. The line is prophetic; not so much of the end of the world but of a mathematical phenomenon, a ‘strange attractor’, described some fifty years later by scientists researching non linear systems and chaos theory. I won’t baffle you with science, but think ‘The Butterfly Effect’; think order, flow, chaos; and then view the paintings of three Melbourne painters showing at D11 Gallery in the Docklands.

 

These three artists depict the world in a state of becoming; time doesn’t stand still in these works. They are not frantic images; there is an air of stillness about them, but a stillness that suggests change rather than stasis. Grant Hill has painted Australian suburbia in a state of slumber. He pictures the Great Australian Dream, the suburban house snug in its self-centered allotment. Paul Keller has also painted landscapes, although not of an Australian kind. Hieronymus Bosch meets Hello Kitty would best describe these exquisitely painted works. Ben Howe presents the urban streets as places of digital discord. Strolling figures dissolve and reform in binary bifurcation.

 

 

 

PAPER DOLLS 

 

Curated by MELISSA DELANEY (rear gallery)

 

A group show expanding on the theme of 'paper dolls' and leading from nostalgia / memory / dreams / the making of stories into a public space / place of secrets and whimsy.

 

Featuring:

Susie ANDERSON

Melissa dELANEY

Yasmin KEANY

Jessica KNIGHT

Jeremy PRYLES

Lilly RHIENGOLD

Gemma ROBERTSON

Laura SMOTH

Zoe STEERS

 

Opening night special selection including live nail art by Relational Cosmetics (between 6 – 7pm), one night only ‘you are golden’ installation by Daisy Catterall.

 

Performances by:

 

6pm - hum noir by Hum Hum Hurrumph

6:30pm - Callum & the Big Order

7pm – Jessica Knight

7:15pm – Velcro