Other Places - Mirrors
Acrylic and tinted film
2018 

That distinct haze of the distant ranges present only from a great distance, a unique combination of eucalyptus gas, dust, light and whatever other magical elements lies between it and you. I’ve spent a lot of years trying to name that colour - part emerald, part magenta - to capture that quality, but it shifts from morning to dusk, from north to south. Mirrors is a musing on these observations. They catch and bend the light, the colours blend, reflect, merge. They are part illusion, a solid gas, the shadow of a mountain, part thing, a space for reflection.

Standing Mirror, edition of 8
1800 x 1160 x 600mm

Surface Mirror, edition of 8
500 x 450 x 200mm
 

Other Places moves intuitively between experience, visions and materials. It is what I’ve seen, and what I’ve imagined, furniture that evokes and/or embodies the landscapes of Australia. As a collection it off-sets a conceptual underpinning with a sense of curiosity and joy. It encapsulates accumulated observations, imagined myths, reminders of present wonders and desired futures, these are other places.

Acquisition enquiries to Sophie Gannon Gallery

Photographs by Sean Fennessy courtesy of Sophie Gannon Gallery