Join us for the opening event at ANCA Gallery Wednesday 2 April from 5.30pm

Eve Fairhall, 2024

Looking Up and Looking Down is an exhibition of mixed media abstract paintings which arose from a period of studio sharing at the ANCA Dickson Campus.

Working intuitively, Eve and Lucy draw forth memoryscapes, inner thoughts and emotions related to the world around us. The artists are concerned with visual perception and pictorial framing in their approaches to painting. For Eve and Lucy, the window presents a conceptual dichotomy through which the painting subject can either be internalised or externalised—meaning the viewer’s vantage point is set from the ‘inside’ or the ‘outside’ of a window frame.

In our homes, windows provide a view of the outside world, allowing light in through a layer of glass which protects and shields us from the elements of the natural world. Windows can also be seen as imaginative portals which capture light, shadow, reflection and space. The protection provided by a glass window is precarious, we are offered a false sense of security by its materiality, which can be easily shattered.

What do we see when we gaze through a window? Through glass a multilayered image is created of the world outside, shadows and dappled light from trees and branches, the reflection of our own faces and the reflection of the inside of an enclosed room.

Lucy Chetcuti, 2024

Light Window Weather Reduction

my inclement eye
has been broken wide open
as roused by a tungsten frame
cough: the paracetamol fever
sweats the merciful machine
as neem,
nitrogen,
scissors,
and showers
draught westwards
across the address
i had sketched on greased paper
he wrote:
apathy and opinions,
this brittle aggregate of extremes
will endlessly murmur in our art
are we enough?
(spoken as soil,
animated and listless,
itchy and restless)
my pupils stretch and wrestle
with the electric hum behind them
(i walk back to the window and close it to keep out the summer storm)

 Anonymous