Necromancing by Harry Hummerston

Editorial

When: 15-29 Aug 2009
Where:Central TAFE Art Gallery

Perth's Winter Arts Season is the perfect way to get out of the house in those cold months, and ignite the creative fires within. And what better way to stoke those fires than to visit some of the art exhibitions on offer? One such exhibition is Necromancing by Harry Hummerston.

Artist-in-residence in July at the Central TAFE Gallery, renowned printmaker Harry Hummerston, who has also been Head of the Curtin University's Art Department, is always ready to push boundaries with his prints and artwork, and challenge our perceptions.

Hummerston does so this time with strong and recognisable images from history and popular culture combined to tease and fascinate. Paradoxes are created, the nature of representation is questioned, and the way we interact with these images in our daily lives is thrown into the air to create new dynamics and questions.

“Harry's work immediately identifies the object as a site of meaning. It is fair to say that Harry is strongly opposed to any restriction or taboo upon what he may represent, particularly from the arena of representing the female object or gender.” Anna Herriman, Artlink Magazine.

For more information, visit Perth Winter Arts.

Tim Hunter, Citysearch