“A trilateral symmetry exists between these three painters, Paul Borg, Gina Kalabishis and Shannon Smiley. First uniting under geography and trajectory of practice, this collaboration fecundates ideas of the uncanny into our domestic Australian landscape. Seemingly steeped in the more romantic and traditional styles of composition, these artists have sought to break beyond such forms to sit upon a precipice of the reality and imagined suburban life. As a result these skewed compositions give the effect of being lost in what should be familiar Australian environments of our objects, our plants and our home. What does one do with being placed in surroundings so conscious of the modern condition? One must greet it and speak a firm truth; ‘We Are Here’.” – Joanna Gould
Chapman and Bailey
Until December 5, 2012
Melbourne
Gina Kalabishis, Agony, 2012, oil on linen, 122 x 100cm
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne
