Lore is more than knowledge and tradition; it takes the concept of past narratives into a contemporary mode of transience. It is about the lived experience and responses to the space we dwell in culturally, metaphorically and physically.
Through painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, assemblage and installation, nine artists from the Illawarra Association for the Visual Arts (IAVA) take on the intangibility of lore by exploring perception, memory, knowledge and the lure of place. Created for sensory engagement, the exhibition invites us to touch, draw, listen, see and remember.
Kate Stehr, ‘Scribing Tools’ series, 2021, branch, cane, found objects. Photograph: Bernie Fischer. Courtesy the artist and Wollongong Art Gallery, New South Wales
Wollongong Art Gallery
12 June to 3 October, 2021
New South Wales
