imagine
Simon Gregg
Gippsland Art Gallery
Two years in the making, ‘imagine’, the inaugural exhibition of the new Gippsland Art Gallery, featured 134 works from 81 national and international artists, spanning five centuries of the human imagination, and a 152-page catalogue.
The Prelude poetically conceptualises the meaning behind the title. While the text touches on the exhibition and its artists: ‘collectively they create a thing alive; a story for the ages that dances and sings as we navigate its pathways,’ writes Simon Gregg – who expands this thought with a detailed narrative of each work in the exhibition. Alongside other paracosms, the succeeding pages depict prismatic rainbows, Earth’s shimmering atmosphere, hyperreal sculptures, embroidered star clouds, miniature cities, and a skeleton reborn in a veil of flowers.
