Polly Borland's surreal imaginations of the human form are strange and unsettling yet at the same time compelling, inviting the viewer to look more closely....
Presented alongside 'Between Two Worlds | Escher X nendo' will be a dynamic calendar of events, programs and exhibitions throughout spring and summer at the National Gallery of Victoria, including exhibitions by Polly Borland, Julian Opie, Hito Steyerl and William Wegman....
Polly Borland has won the he coveted Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, receiving $25,000 for her work Two Heads A (2016), to be acquired as part of the Gold Coast City Gallery collection....
Making you look is the canny lure of Borland’s work. In this era of easy to digest (and forget) images, it is those magic makers like Borland who get us to work for it, and so the ideas linger long after we’ve left the gallery....