“The bird as a symbol of the human soul can be traced back to Ancient Egypt. 3,000 years ago the Egyptian hieroglyph ‘Ba’ represented the nonphysical personality of a person – what we refer to as the soul. ‘Ba’ was the spiritual aspect of the
human being that survived, or came into being, after death.
Today, in an era post the declaration of ‘the death of painting’, the soul of painting lives on. If painting is dead, long live the spirit of painting. I am interested in depicting the soul as its own fleshy being. The soul laid bare, naked as a slab of meat. This is my lament, my Mourning Chorus”.
– Sal Higgins
Sheffer Gallery
June 27 to July 7, 2012
Sydney
Untitled Self (Hanging), 2008, mixed media and oil on canvas, 95 x 120cm
Courtesy the artist and Sheffer Gallery, Sydney
