Main Gallery
(Now showing)
Ian Smith, Dilemma in a kitchen 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 121 × 182 cm
IAN SMITH
Across & Down
Across and down. The directional designation of clues in a crossword puzzle's spatial grid. Down and across. The literal reverse, yet not at all equal and opposite – particularly if applied to the puzzle of life. Across and down deploys and controls from the high ground. Down and across struggles to rise back up from below. In primary school we learnt to differentiate between stalactites hanging tight from the ceiling of caves and stalagmites standing mightily up from the cave floor, formed by calcareous water dripping down from the stalactites. Two gravitational positions from which to view life, the world and, in turn, compose pictures. – Ian Smith (catalogue extract)
Exhibition dates
14 May – 11 June 2022
WAG.GALLERY
CONTEMPORARY LEASE SPACE
Upstairs Gallery
(Now showing)
CHERVONA KALYNA
40% of proceeds will be donated to the Ukrainian recovery effort.
featuring
Olga Lutsenko
Anatolii Kompanets
Svetlana Soldatova
Natasha Khmelevska
Closing event
Saturday afternoon 2 July 2:30pm - 5:00pm
Exhibition date
14 June- 2 July 2022 (extended)
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