AMUSEMENT - SOLO EXHIBITION

"a precious glimpse into Anna Glynn's art-making"

"...deeply serious works drawing on immaculate intellectual, historical and environmental research..."

Dr Natalie McDonagh, Amusement exhibition curator, says:

“The invitation here is to look. To look closely. Look very closely, for there is a sleight of hand at play here. Do not let your eye or mind be deceived by pleasing, playful appearances. These are deeply serious works drawing on immaculate intellectual, historical and environmental research.

Standing in front of Anna Glynn’s works you may find yourself having an Alice-Through-the-Looking-Glass experience, entering a strange world. It may be unnerving at times, but you will be rewarded in ways impossible to predict.

The paintings, drawings and moving image works selected for the exhibition primarily focus on the past ten years of Anna’s practice giving us a precious glimpse into her art-making that now spans four decades.

The term ‘Eurotipodes’ appears in the titles of a series of works. Playing with language Anna created the term to express her view of the Eurocentric interpretation of the world; the notion that the northern hemisphere is the right way up and we hang upside down in our down under ‘Antipodes’.

In the era of the National Gallery of Australia's initiative, Know My Name, which is designed to encourage us to, ‘Celebrate women artists – see their art, hear their stories, and know their names’, this is a prime opportunity to get to better know the name and work of Anna Glynn."

In 1997 Arthur Boyd said that Anna Glynn's work is “…derived from a physical and mental excursion into the Australian landscape and its myths…”. Glynn’s exhibition, Amusement demonstrates that Arthur was absolutely correct in his summation of her art practice.

Antipodean Wonderland Tableaux Stubbs Dingo | ink, watercolour & pencil on paper | 2017