In their debut exhibition Pearl the Wench features works that explore the effects of a traumatic history. This series comes from a period of acceptance for Pearl and finding their voice to talk about things they’d sworn never to discuss.
The artist speaks on their concern about their own fragility when accepting a traumatic childhood, the colours leaking and bursting like their desire to love themselves and a hope that one day the fear will pass. The cloaked beings mortalised here are fictitious, nameless, faceless watchers with red hands that take away people’s pain. They converse on the artist’s memories, mental illness, body and mind, as well as death, duality, mysticism, the unknown and human perception. They are whole worlds as well as sensations and moments in human existence.
“To summarise vaguely; waking up can be difficult when you’re so tired, coming back can be strange when you’ve been gone for so long. “
Opening night March 21, 7pm, with bands:
Wild Gloriosa - solo
https://www.instagram.com/wildgloriosa/
https://linktr.ee/WildGloriosa
Julz Evans
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EeoBQXYtZwdFcE0DV09o6?si=V42FnQMkSyeb74QlTXVYyQ&nd=1
Rosie Excess - solo
https://open.spotify.com/track/6RfcoVFFjn3jgJw1sQTC9H
https://www.instagram.com/rosieexcess/
This event is sponsored by Mountain Goat Brewery.
“Cloaked” will be open daily from 3-8pm until April 3.
The Old Bar Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which The Old Bar resides. The gallery pays its respect to Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledges that sovereignty has never been ceded.