This exhibition is the result of Fuller’s 2013 William Fletcher Travelling Fellowship residency at the highly regarded British School in Rome. This award has let Fuller create a new body of work influenced by his experience of Roman art and culture, expanding his practice in new and unconventional directions.
In these new hand-drawn films Fuller introduces colour, extending his palette beyond his usual use of black, white and grey. He drafts a Pope as the protagonist and explores themes of power, expectation and burden and looks beyond the spiritual role of this influential figure, by animating a compassionate, overwhelmed and lonesome man, not the higher power of typical representations.
Brenda May Gallery
20 August to 7 September, 2013
Sydney
Postcards to the Pope, 2013, film still
Courtesy the artist and Brenda May Gallery
