Exhibition
Beyond the wandering moon, beyond the star
Devonport Regional Gallery
Beyond the wandering moon, beyond the star
Featuring loaned and Permanent Collection works by:
Bethany van Rijswijk, Faeries of Tasmania, Nanna Bayer, Lorraine Biggs, Wendy Bulmer, David Keeling, Milan Milojevic, Peter Sugden, Annie Cocker
Curated by Ellina Evans
Saturday 23 March 2024 – Saturday 11 May 2024
Upper Gallery, Level 2
Many thinkers and theorists have argued that modernity is defined by the rejection of magic. Spirits, fairies, and spells are the domain of children, and rationality is an essential virtue. However, magic has a key role to play in both the personal and broader sociopolitical worlds. Magic has many practical applications, for example, to help heal the rifts between humanity and nature, or to facilitate intergenerational connection and play. Crossing thresholds into places of wonder can be profoundly grounding, connecting us to place, people, and culture. These thresholds to magical realms can be found everywhere, in nature, rituals, dreams, play. To make art is to conjure worlds.
This exhibition seeks to re-enchant. It holds the existence of other, invisible worlds, as truth, and their mystical inhabitants as living.
Title from Somewhere or Other by Christina Rosetti, 1859
Featuring loaned and Permanent Collection works by Bethany van Rijswijk, Faeries of Tasmania, Nanna Bayer, Lorraine Biggs, Wendy Bulmer, David Keeling, Milan Milojevic, Peter Sugden, Annie Cocker.
Curated by Ellina Evans.
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EXHIBITION OPENING:
Friday 22 March 2024, 6.00 PM
Devonport Regional Gallery, Upper Gallery – Level 2
Please join us at the Gallery to open Beyond the wandering moon, beyond the star, a Permanent Collection (plus loaned items) exhibition at the Devonport Regional Gallery on Friday 22 March at 6pm.
This is a free event but RSVP is appreciated via the online booking link:
https://forms.office.com/r/AxwVC9XdEA
*** Image: Bethany van Rijswijk, We worshipped, we parted green from green, 2021, Archival print of hand-cut collage on paper, Edition of 10 + AP, 80 x 60 cm
