EXHIBITIONS / CATCH

26.02.2009 to 21.03.2009

Lorna Grear's latest exhibition at Peloton, Catch, blends four various bodies of work into one show.
Her Puzzle Pictures use children's toys as solutions to questions, whilst the New World Order Maps reclaim the cliché title, making reference to world maps, abstract thought and visual puzzles.
The Mac Pacs and Automated cutouts are homage to the readymade. With packaging from computer boxes and left over stencils from 3D assembly toys, Lorna makes aesthetic objects out of stuff we usually throw away.
Her larger paintings bring all these elements into singular images. These paintings reference iconic 18th century paintings re-fashioned into abstract patterns and flag-like images. In Swirling Bungaree the silhouette of the Aboriginal tracker named Bungaree is used as an ironic symbol of 'taming the native', repositioned as an op-art mandala.

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