Two new exhibitions at SECCA
Two exciting exhibitions will officially launch at SECCA on the evening of Friday 16 February.
Gerwyn Davies, Gunshot, 2023, archival pigment print, edition of 5 + 1AP © The artist & Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney.
12 February 2024
Two exciting exhibitions will officially launch at SECCA on the evening of Friday 16 February.
Bega Valley Shire Mayor, Russell Fitzpatrick will join guest speakers, Canberra Glassworks Artistic Director, Aimee Frodsham and artist, curator and writer Dr Daniel Mudie Cunningham to launch Jessica Loughlin’s Of Light exhibition and Gerwyn Davies’ exhibition, Glisten.
SECCA Director, Iain Dawson said Jessica Loughlin is one of Australia’s most internationally acclaimed glass artists and is renowned for her innovative technical approach to kiln-formed glass.
“Jessica creates ethereal glass works that explore her fascination with the beauty of emptiness and her extensive research into light and space,” Mr Dawson said.
“She’s been a studio glass artist for more than 25 years and has dedicated her practice to capturing the transient qualities of light and the quiet sense of contemplation it provokes.
“Of Light will open on Saturday 17 February and run until 10 April in Gallery One.”
Gerwyn Davies’ Glisten exhibition opened on 9 February and will run until 3 April in the SECCA Chambers Gallery.
Davies has been creating a serial parade of photographic images that sit within an Australian context of queer art and visual culture for more than a decade.
He draws from fashion, popular culture, advertising and club culture.
His body of work is like a typology of locations – real and imagined – that references and constructs hyperstylised tourist destinations and more generic landscapes, streets and beaches you might find in a web image stock library.
The official opening of Of Light and Glisten will begin at 6pm on 16 February at SECCA (South East Centre for Contemporary Art), Zingel Place, Bega and entry to the exhibitions is free.
A free ‘in conversation’ between Lisa Herbert, Gerwyn Davies and Daniel Mudie Cunningham will be open to the public at 11am on Saturday 17 February.
SECCA (secca.com.au) is open daily from 10am to 5pm. Closed on public holidays.
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