Artwork by Stephen Hall from his current exhibition. Click for a larger image.
Nepean Arts and Design Centre's visual Arts teacher Stephen Hall has a solo exhibition on at the moment at Sheffer Gallery, 38 Lander Street Darlington. The exhibition is on display until August 3, and the Gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday 11am-6pm.
The opening of the exhibition was a great success, with many colleagues and students amongst the guests.
Here is Stephen's artist statement from the show:
Tigers Horses and 16th Century
Men is the work of an artist who has been exhibiting for 30 years and has
always been deeply interested in who humans are and what we do and why we do
the thing we do. This also brings
into focus our relationship with, and the impact we have on planet earth itself
and the other creatures we share it with.
Tigers hang on to existence, horses are the epitome of wild freedom but
have been tamed and are now comparatively redundant and have been unwittingly
implicit in mankind’s journey. Pointy bearded men in ruffs seem to be a relic irreconcilable
with our current understanding of life. I believe these three to be the perfect
protagonists to be given a chance to talk about what the hell mankind is on
about today. Narratives as well as figurative forms alter and breakdown only to
rebuild and reform never admitting to an absolute truth.
The exhibition includes a three meter
painting painted while watching a documentary about tiger cubs trying to
survive in the simplest way where everything is about the essentials of life as
well as six ceramic sculptures that lurch from one form to another restlessly morphing;
a figure that might appear to be human or a horse at first glance but is
quickly revealed as a hybrid form struggling to assert its existence. The final
part of the exhibition is a series of twenty seven ink drawings depicting tigers,
horses and 16th century men and covers many aspects of
transformation, relationships and how stupid humans can be especially when we think
we know what we are doing, while some are just simply playful.
- Stephen Hall, 2013
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