Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years

27 September 2009 - 7 February 2010 / Entire

Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years presented seminal works from the 1960s and 1970s alongside more recent work. Kusama is renowned for her lifelong interest in visual perception and sensory experiences, her fixation with repetitive patterns and forms, her iconic use of dots and her dizzying installations. Mixing Op Art, Pop Art and sculptural practice, her all-enveloping room-installations, mirrored to infinity, are hallucinatory, surrealistic, and utterly unlike anything else you will experience in the world of art.

 

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Marie Shannon: Love Notes, Courtenay Place Light Boxes

19 June - 19 December 2009 / Entire

Sixteen private hand-written notes offer an unexpectedly intimate encounter within this large-scale public display. Drawn from a collection of messages exchanged between the artist, her partner and their child, the notes can be understood within a biographical context but they also have a more universal appeal, Shannon’s photographs present tangible evidence of seemingly anonymous intimacy.

 

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