Unfamiliar Familiars
Some exhibitions are 'hard to exhaust'.
Arrow Bisset, Icky Brothers, Ceridwyn Williams, Rosie Wordsworth
Rosny Schoolhouse
“I’m not saying that everything has to be about some real-world concern, but fantasy should be much sharper, it should penetrate real-world issues, real psychological states, it should always have some relevance to the world in which the reader is reading it. Otherwise, it’s going to become a nebulous, drifting dreamworld of impossible escape” – Alan Moore[1]
Some exhibitions are 'hard to exhaust'.
That’s a phrase I’ve nicked from Maria Kunda, who was my Honours supervisor at Art School, a long time back, when I was a different kind of complex to the version I am now. I have a great debt to acknowledge there; Maria set me on the path that led here, to writing about art, and if I am to use her excellent phrasing, I want it known.
These are the exhibitions that really stay with me, and I continue to consider them long after they are over, with new revelations bubbling up, sometimes at the oddest of moments.
