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Ivan Dougherty Gallery

Don't Trust The Artist

When:    Oct 29, 2009  -  Nov 28, 2009
Artist(s): Pat Foster & Jen Berean, Richard Lewer, Rob McLeish, Geoff Newton, Simon Pericich, Jackson Slattery
Curated by: Alexie Glass
Additional Information: Opening To be opened Friday 30 October, 6 - 8 pm, by the curator Alexie Glass Artists' Talks Saturday 31 October, 1 -3 pm
Simon Pericich The density of darkness, 2007. local acquatic weeds, wood, fluro lights, water pump, various advertising, bling and rubbish, dimensions variable, image courtesy of the artist

Work by recent studio artists, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

Don't Trust The Artist explores the entanglements of artifice, suspicion, delinquency, the sacrilegious and conspiracy, building upon D.H. Lawrence's tongue-in-cheek polemic, "Don't trust the artist, trust the tale." Deliberately discursive, reflective and, occasionally, darkly humorous, the space of Don't Trust The Artist is one of risk and surveillance.