The Art Gallery of Ballarat presents Lost in Palm Springs, curated by artist and curator Dr Greer Honeywill in an initiative developed by HOTA, Home of the Arts, Gold Coast.
The multidisciplinary exhibition brings together fourteen creative minds who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, California and across Australia.
?In an era of radical transformation, it is calming, inspiring, and reassuring to lose yourself in the art and architecture of a dream,? says Dr Honeywill.
Including internationally recognised photographers and thinkers from America and Australia, the artists are all curious, drawn to unbridled beauty, intense landscapes, and romantic notions of isolation, equally drawn to where ideas of place and home shape society and the architecture in which we live. Post-war Australia and America shared a dream, naming it here ?the great Australian dream? the idea was the same across the two nations?to create as many affordable homes as possible for the developing middle class in order to reinvigorate the post-war economy. Works by Australian artists Kate Ballis, Tom Blachford, Anna Carey, Sam Cranstoun, Paul Davies, Rosi Griffin, Vicki Stravrou, Robyn Sweaney and Gosia Wlodarczak will be on display alongside works by Darren Bradley, Jim Isermann, Troy Kudlac, Lance O?Donnell and Kim Stringfellow from the United States.
Art Gallery of Ballarat Director Louise Te...