REVIEW: Lynda Draper’s Garden of Earthly Delights
A stone’s throw from the Illawarra escarpment at Campbelltown Arts Centre, the introduction to Draper’s ecosphere is a gathering of rainbow forms which, as an entrée, signal a period of transition and presents the most heterogenous arrangement in Glimmer. Cultural references are pluralist and synthesised across archetypal forms suggestive of Haniwa (Japanese unglazed clay mortuary […]
REVIEW: A Tear in the Fabric
The curator Con Gerakaris’s considered arrangement of diverse works conjures the distinctive cultural and physical topographies of Asia. Entering A Tear in the Fabric, the viewer transits Leyla Stevens’s GROH GOH (Rehearsal for Rangda), 2023, a single channel video work depicting the mythological demon queen Rangda, a staple of Kecak. This genre of traditional Balinese […]

