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Ex Voto

18/08/2017 - 28/08/2017

Gaffa Gallery Sydney

Ex Voto: An offering made in fulfillment of a vow.

We are pulled out of our homes to travel once in a while, drawn by people, places, lovers and circumstance into other countries and cultures. One of the places that we come across the most difference from our homebound lives is in the visual manifestation of faith in architecture, visual iconography and ceremony in religious and cultural events in countries outside of our own. Ex Voto expresses the echo and aftershock that these moments leave on our lives when we return home.

This exhibition is also about the role of ritual and habit in everyday life and the way these practices contribute to personal identity and purpose. Cruise’s conceptual starting point is her experience of religious and cultural festivities abroad, however the works really begin in the contrast between a sacred practice and a very secular one. Through painting, Cruise raises the value of domestic chores and daily habits to the status of important cultural rituals.

In the development of these works Cruise explores the role of decorative systems in attributing value to objects, the role of the artist in assigning meaning via the decision of subject matter, as well of the role of space and how it can be a means for people to connect with their environment.

Ex Voto is about giving holiness to routine, to community engagement, aesthetic orderliness and ornamentation. Carefully ordered interiors are sanctums, leisurely gardens are retreats.

Still life is a devotional practice and landscapes are holy sites.

Oliver Hensel Brown

 

 

Ex Voto

18/08/2017 - 28/08/2017

Gaffa Gallery Sydney

Ex Voto: An offering made in fulfillment of a vow.

We are pulled out of our homes to travel once in a while, drawn by people, places, lovers and circumstance into other countries and cultures. One of the places that we come across the most difference from our homebound lives is in the visual manifestation of faith in architecture, visual iconography and ceremony in religious and cultural events in countries outside of our own. Ex Voto expresses the echo and aftershock that these moments leave on our lives when we return home.

This exhibition is also about the role of ritual and habit in everyday life and the way these practices contribute to personal identity and purpose. Cruise’s conceptual starting point is her experience of religious and cultural festivities abroad, however the works really begin in the contrast between a sacred practice and a very secular one. Through painting, Cruise raises the value of domestic chores and daily habits to the status of important cultural rituals.

In the development of these works Cruise explores the role of decorative systems in attributing value to objects, the role of the artist in assigning meaning via the decision of subject matter, as well of the role of space and how it can be a means for people to connect with their environment.

Ex Voto is about giving holiness to routine, to community engagement, aesthetic orderliness and ornamentation. Carefully ordered interiors are sanctums, leisurely gardens are retreats.

Still life is a devotional practice and landscapes are holy sites.

Oliver Hensel Brown

 

 

Farnesina

Farnesina

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 40x30cm

Jardin de Tuileries

Jardin de Tuileries

2017, Acrylic & collage on canvas, 45x30cm

Accidental Monument

Accidental Monument

2017, Acrylic on canvas 64x42cm

Mariner's Crown

Mariner's Crown

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 64x42cm

Glorious Descent

Glorious Descent

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 64x40cm

Waiting in violet

Waiting in violet

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 64x42cm

Janitzio Island

Janitzio Island

2017, Acrylic & collage on canvas, 64x40cm

Tableau Vivant

Tableau Vivant

2017, Acrylic & collage on canvas, 64x42cm 

Call to Saint Martin

Call to Saint Martin

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 64x42cm

Sunday Best

Sunday Best

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 64x42cm

Mother's Flowers

Mother's Flowers

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 45x30cm

Balcony

Balcony

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 45x30cm

Starry Night

Starry Night

2017, Acrylic & collage on canvas, 40x30cm

Atrium

Atrium

2017, Acrylic & collage on canvas, 40x30cm

Place Cards

Place Cards

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 40x30cm

Vanity Set

Vanity Set

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 40x30cm

Waterhole

Waterhole

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 84x60cm

Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 84x60cm

Street Romance

Street Romance

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 84x60cm

Farnesina Walk

Farnesina Walk

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 110x90cm

Looking for Monet

Looking for Monet

2017, Acrylic on canvas, 60x60cm

Ex Voto, 2017

Ex Voto, 2017

Gaffa, Sydney Australia

Ex Voto, 2017

Ex Voto, 2017

Gaffa, Sydney Australia

Ex Voto, 2017

Ex Voto, 2017

Gaffa, Sydney Australia

Ex Voto, 2017

Ex Voto, 2017

Gaffa, Sydney Australia

Ex Voto, 2017

Ex Voto, 2017

Gaffa, Sydney Australia

Ex Voto, 2017

Ex Voto, 2017

Gaffa, Sydney Australia

Ex Voto, 2017

Ex Voto, 2017

Gaffa, Sydney Australia

Ex Voto, 2017

Ex Voto, 2017

Gaffa, Sydney Australia

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