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Fri December 20, 2024 @ 9:00 am - Sat February 8, 2025 @ 5:00 pm

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Cairns Art Gallery

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

 

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Details

Start:
Fri 20 December 2024 @ 9:00 am
End:
Sat February 8, 2025 @ 5:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://www.cairnsartgallery.com.au/whats-on/exhibitions/sixfold-tidy-house

Organiser

Cairns Art Gallery
Phone
+61 7 4046 4800
Email
info@cairnsartgallery.com.au
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Rachel
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Holliday
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rachel.h@cairnsartgallery.com.au

Venue

Cairns Art Gallery
40 Abbott St
Cairns, Queensland 4870 Australia
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+61 7 4046 4800
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