would move me more than glitter 2019, Good Grief Studios, Hobart
Prickles and Pears 2019, oil on linen, 81 x 71 cm
would move me more than glitter, installation view, Good Grief Studios, 2019, photograph by Rosie Hastie
Princess X x2, after Brancusi 2019, oil on linen, 30.5 x 30.5 cm
would move me more than glitter , installation view, Good Grief Studios, 2019, photograph by Rosie Hastie
She Shells 2019, oil on linen, 81 x 71 cm
would move me more than glitter installation view, Good Grief Studios, Nadege Philippe-Janon, 2019, photograph by Rosie Hastie
Peacock, after Quilty and Whitely 2019, oil on linen, 38.5 x 38.5 cm
would move me more than glitter
Priscilla Beck
Liam James
Nadege Janon-Philippe
Amber Koroluk-Stephenson
would move me more than glitter examines interpretations of the ‘artist’s muse’, aiming to capture potency and poetry of the muse through examining interplays between figuration and abstraction, desires and devotion, sexuality and objectification, public and private, intimacy and immediacy, substance and futility.
The works respond to fragmented states of meaning and understanding through equivocal visual dialogs, playing on the social, cultural, institutional and hierarchical understandings of the muse as object and subject in fiction, history, mythology and popular culture.
To an army wife, in Sardis
Sappho
Some say a cavalry corps, some infantry, some, again, will maintain that the swift oars of our fleet are the finest sight on dark earth; but I say that whatever one loves, is. This is easily proved: did not Helen—she who had scanned the flower of the world’s manhood— choose as first among men one who laid Troy’s honor in ruin? warped to his will, forgetting love due her own blood, her own child, she wandered far with him.
So Anactoria, although you being far away forget us, the dear sound of your footstep and light glancing in your eye would move me more than glitter of Lydian horse or armored tread of mainland infantry