Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf will be closed Wednesday 25 December and Thursday 26 December 2024, as well as Wednesday 1 January 2025. The Gallery is open normal hours from Friday 27 December - Sunday 29 December. We wish you a wonderful festive season and a very happy New Year.
Lisa Carrett, Small Town Kids, 2024
Artist as Archivist brings together the work of Olivia Arnold, Lisa Carrett and Millie Mitchell in an exploration of identity, kin, and home as embedded within the archive. Through diverse mediums encompassing painting, drawing, and bookmaking, and bound by the ethos of slow making, the artists scrutinise the import of heirlooms, documents, and photographs that chronicle individual and familial narratives.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Gallery’s Reading Room will showcase a curated selection of books exploring artists' interactions with archives, themes of home, displacement, and women's histories. By situating their work within this curated archive, the artists aim to evoke the enduring relevance of archives in times of turmoil, conflict, and displacement. In today's world marked by both global and local tensions over land rights, the Reading Room intervention investigates the distinctions between house and home, inviting viewers to contemplate a diverse array of perspectives, particularly those stemming from marginalised communities.