Friday 28 May 2021 6-9pm; Saturday 29 May 2021 12.30-4 pm; Sunday 30 May 2021, 11am-4 pm
at Don Bank Cottage Museum, Napier Street North Sydney View recent art work (2020-2021) in the small historic house. The black framed, 60x90cm, gouache on MDF board paintings reveal the unconscious and concealed terrors that haunt our minds and demonstrate how such demons infiltrate and spill into every-day life. We are unaware of how childhood demons cling to ourselves, hiding in memories and surfacing to tell the people around us our fears, disappointments, brutalities and rage that we keep alive. For once let loose and freed, we lose a comfortable part of ourselves- the self we have kept to ourselves from shame and fear. The Don Bank Cottage Museum with its shadowy corners and low lit interiors perfectly houses the paintings for the old cottage reinforces how many of the traumas of childhood occur in the home. The 'cottage' is the setting for many fairy-tales in which young people become aware of their constraints and sever them to develop into adulthood. |