Sixfold Project: A Tidy House at Cairns Art Gallery
A Tidy House features new work by the art collective Sixfold Project – Raewyn Biggs, Barbara Dover, Louisa Ennis-Thomas, Julie Poulsen, Rose Rigley and Jennifer Valmadre. These contemporary artists engage with the complexities surrounding the concept of the home in inventive and diverse ways.
Exploring the home/house dichotomy, interpretations of the universal, familiar and tangible architectural structure arise. But the home is, above all, a private and personal realm where we experience much of our lives internally.
During a period of uncertainty with environmental, economic and social change, an examination of ‘the home’ is particularly timely. For most of us, the home is a place of comfort, refuge and security, while, for some, it might be a space of loneliness, displacement or difficulty.
Throughout our lives, the house remains central. As children, we play house: making, building, imagining and dreaming in these make-believe spaces. This play serves as a rehearsal, perhaps, for later in life when, we aspire to create and occupy our own living spaces as adults.
In A Tidy House, Sixfold Project artists employ the gamut of their multidisciplinary art practices to investigate the significant role that the house continues to hold in all our lives.
IMAGE:
Barbara DOVER
Home Sweet Home (installation detail) 2024
cast soap
various
Courtesy of the artist
Photograph: Michael Marzik
