Several Shots of Cosmos – Hannah Gatland

EXHIBITION DATES: 30 JULY – 19 AUGUST 2011

OPENING: FRIDAY 29 JULY 6pm, ARTIST TALK 5pm

Hannah Gatland Soda Pop Pop (detail), 2011. Image courtesy the artist.

About the exhibition

It takes a period of time to familiarise oneself with the frantic energy that is a vital makeup of any newly encountered large city. In time one is able to derive that the city is composed of numerous micro cities and boroughs within its self. These singled out microorganisms are small-scale neighbourhoods that can be diverse buzzing mini metropolises for sub-cultures to create and thrive within. Nature itself has complex sub universes and systems of it’s own making. A tiny fragile snowflake is so perfect in it’s unique symmetric pattern. The natural occurring pattern that makes up the flake is never repeated making every snowflake its own individual cosmos. When this snowflake is combined with a whole cloud of other flakes it has the ability to wreak havoc by shutting down international airports and cities. It is this act of distinguishing small sections from the chaos and unpredictably of our macro universe to create personal microscopic sanctuaries that is curious to me.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.