BLACKARTPROJECTS & SARAH HENDY PRESENT
LIKE THIEVES NEWLY LOOSED IN THAT DARK ELECTRIC B L A C K blackartprojects ABN 19 223 523 412 blackartprojects.com.au +61 (0) 438 007 541
LIKE THIEVES NEWLY LOOSED IN THAT DARK ELECTRIC
Chalk Horse 8 Lacey Street Surry Hills New South Wales 21 - 30 June, 2012
They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing. Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Sarah Hendy’s practice of painting from photographic stock explores the strangeness inherent to the visual documentation of social mores, with an eye for the sense of menace that often animates the representation of the apparently mundane. Despite the obscurity of their source, we feel that we recognise these images, and it is impossible not to impose narratives upon the paintings as they beg to be understood and given a history.
I am made oil on linen 36 x 36 cm
Demigod oil on linen 36 x 36 cm
Spud life oil on linen 36 x 36 cm
Among the blood stains oil on linen 36 x 36 cm
Bone memory oil on linen 40 x 40 cm
The remains of the day oil on linen 40 x 40 cm
Ordnance oil on paper 76 x 56 cm (84 X 63 cm framed)
A history of the world oil on paper 76 x 56 cm (84 X 63 cm framed)
Waiting for daylight oil on paper 76 x 56 cm (84 X 63 cm framed)
We are all made of stars oil on paper 76 x 56 cm (84 X 63 cm framed)
My traitor’s heart oil on paper 76 x 56 cm (84 X 63 cm framed)
The sheltering sky oil on paper 76 x 56 cm (84 X 63 cm framed)
supported by
WWW.BLACKARTPROJECTS.COM.AU WWW.SARAHHENDY.COM.AU WWW.CHALKHORSE.COM.AU WWW.CAKEWINES.COM