Familiar; Unfamiliar

This exhibition is the Interim show of our current Zsuzsi Roboz Scholars. Both are painters with an interest in figuration depicting the human form within particular domestic and urban environments that also consider the politics of representation.  

Alice Mendelowitz: “I’m interested in mixing up the intimate, the crass, the banal and the decorative, and particularly by moments when the degraded or overproduced imagery of our everyday lives synchronises in some unexpected way with the coordinates of art history: the conjunction of the unspectacular with the grand narratives supplied by inherited ways of seeing.” 

Marco Piccari: “My practice revolves around the struggle to find a safe place for one's identity - and the inevitable escapism, through places of virtual and physical refuge, in the glory of the past, and in the realm of fantasy. I'm particularly concerned with the ambiguous reality of being queer in the age of neoliberalism.”