Friends of the Gallery: Artist Talk with Karla Dickens
Saturday 25 November, 11am
Elevator ARI, 3 Rural Street
Friends of the Lismore Regional Gallery (Friends) are excited to present an Artist Talk with Karla Dickens conducted by Betty Russ, with a morning tea.The Artist Talk is part of the Friends program ‘Beyond Bricks and Mortar’ which has funding support from The Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR).
Karla Dickens is a pre-eminent Australian artist. Based in Goonellabah, Lismore, on Bundjalung Country, cross-cultural Wiradjuri woman Karla Dickens brings black humour to her unflinching interrogation of subjects such as race, gender and injustice, revealing her often raw pain along the way.
Born in Sydney on Gadigal Country in 1967, Dickens studied at the National Art School, graduating with a primary focus on painting and collage. Since then, she has expanded into a more sculptural practice that often disarms viewers with familiar – if racially or sexually charged – found objects, a strategy she says helps them connect with the work.
Betty Russ is an artist and arts worker living on Widjabul Wia-bal country, Bundjalung Nation (Lismore). Working across sculpture, assemblage, installation, sound, and embodied research, her practice ferments between and around the philosophies and renderings of eschatological terror, speculative +/ science fiction, hauntology, spirituality, the-weird-and-the-eerie. Material manifestations protrude from hypnagogic fantasy, searching for psychological mitigation to the abject shock of the past, and sweaty white-knuckled fear of the future. Betty is co-founder of Elevator ARI, an emerging artist-run gallery and studio space.
Cost: $10 for Friends of the Gallery, $15 for Non-members
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