Jenny Gillam : Another Green World

23 April - 30 May 2004 in the Hirschfeld Gallery
Humorous and playful, Jenny Gillam’s exhibition Another Green World is instantly appealing with its lambs, bunnies and Scottie dogs. Gillam’s aesthetic is deliberately kitsch, nostalgic and cute. As we look beyond the bright glossy finish of her photographs, however, we notice that some things are not quite as they seem: the lambs aren’t so cute and cuddly when we realise that they are in fact taxidermied. In Another Green World, Gillam alerts us to the ways in which nature is perceived and represented through photographic images.