Many Sided Face

Contemporary Art Tasmania, Project Space, lutruwita/Tasmania

9 June - 11 August 2016

*Many Sided Face*, installation shot, photo by Rosie Hastie

*Cockatoo Glove*, 2016, oil on canvas, 35cm x 30cm

*Kookaburra Glove*, 2016, oil on canvas, 35cm x 30cm

*Pelican Glove*, 2016, oil on canvas, 35cm x 30cm

*King Parrot Glove*, 2016, oil on canvas, 35cm x 30cm

*Emu Glove*, 2016, oil on canvas, 35cm x 30cm

Many Sided Face

Many Sided Face presents a series painted portraits that explore human interactions with the natural environment, and relationships between Australian landscape and identity. These works draw on Australian cliches and popular culture, using a combination of coloured cleaning gloves and hand gestures that imitate iconic Australian birds in their ‘natural habitat’. The domestic cleaning glove is used as a motif to represent suburbia and our detachment from the ‘bush’ or ‘outback’ and the flora and fauna that inhabit the land. These portraits present a modern alternative approach to connecting with the thematics of Australian identity, place and belonging.