Artist: Rona Green
Content: Printmaking
Price Range: most works from $320 to $1700
Exhibition: Port Jackson Press Australia - Centre for Australian Printmaking 67 Cambridge Street Collingwood 3066
Dates: October 9 - November 1 2008
I Love Fish + Chips is an intriguing exhibition of twenty three hand coloured prints of anthropomorphic figures who inhabit a world at the fringes of clean and proper society.
Dogs, cats, rabbits and birds are adorned with tattoos of symbols that delve into darker areas of outcasts and criminal culture. However these figures are a dichotomy, while their skins bare the symbols of fringe dwellers and misfits, their form seems to subvert this darker message with their obvious cuteness. Throughout the exhibition I found myself brought back again and again to the fact that I was looking at a puppy dog in a waistcoat.
I must admit that the topic of Green’s research is of great personal interest to me, however, bias aside this is an excellent show of wonderful printmaking.
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