Exhibition dates: 6th May – 23rd May, 2009
The opening of the night – simply spectacular! Great crowd, great atmosphere, great work.
Winner of the Robert Jacks Drawing Prize in 2008 the artist’s work in biro and oil is outstanding. I have never seen such art made using a biro before: truly inspiring. Inventive, funny, poignant and outrageous this is a must see show.
Don’t miss it!
Opening night crowd at ‘So It Goes’ by Laith McGregor at Helen Gory Galerie, Melbourne
Laith McGregor
‘My kind of blue (black)’
2009
“McGregor’s work blurs the boundaries between portraiture, memory and imagination. Into each picture, drawn from and nourished by his past, notions of the unconscious mind are introduced and investigated and the certainty of memory and markers are challenged and slowly unravelled. Figurative forms metamorphose into uncanny, exaggerated, and often incongruous images and arrangements. Beards are grossly elongated, hair extends seamlessly to form a tree or a cocoon that envelopes a face and a neck transforms into a weighted mound in ‘portraits’ that are at once warm, playful and pensive. ‘It’s important for me to see the imagery appear otherworldly, whimsical and strange. I want it to be amusing and serious simultaneously, for the work to push and pull between its contrasting qualities.’
In ‘So It Goes’ it is his mother and father, who according to Laith ‘kinda looks like Jesus’, that are the subject of his gaze.”
Text from the Helen Gory Galerie website
Laith McGregor
‘My kinda of Blue (red)’ (detail)
2009
Laith McGregor
‘Vertigo’
2009
Laith McGregor
‘The Last Bastion’ (detail)
2009
Laith McGregor
‘The Last Bastion’ (detail)
2009
Helen Gory Galerie
25, St. Edmonds Road,
Prahran, Vic 3181
Opening hours: Wed – Fri 11 – 5pm, Sat 10 – 4pm
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