In her latest body of hauntingly beautiful works, which freely pay homage to the early colonial art of Australia, Gina Kalabishis explores the feeling of love in all it’s permutations.
Embedded in to a mythological heartland of Australian flora and composed as sensual ikebana arrangements, she constructs narratives based around imagined past and future landscapes. Peering through a veil of shadows we discover (and continually rediscover) moving epitaphs to sex and love, community and togetherness, and environmental catastrophe. Kalabishis presents this vision through the doorway; ‘we have only to draw breath, step through and enter’.
Flinders Lane Gallery
14 April to 2 May, 2015
Melbourne
Strath Creek – Merri Creek (after Von Guerard), 2015, oil on linen, 122 x 91cm
