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An exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Sydney artist Louisa Chircop at The SHAC gallery Robertson
‘Come shower with me’ invites viewers into the intimate world of Sydney based artist Louisa Chircop. As the title of her exhibition suggests, Chircop not only utilises the idea of the history of women’s activity in the bathroom but also uses the concept of showering to parallel her creative process in an ode to free association and surrealism, similarly the way ideas come to mind in the shower.
Through Chircop’s experience and interest in art history and psychological phenomenons, she explores the human condition creating images that are illicit in nature, rendered with complex meaning and hints of the shadow self. Chance encounters are played out repositioning women in art history whilst simultaneously positioning herself in relation to history, creating a metaphorical allegory about our present time.
Chircop is comfortable as chameleon, every image is a reconstruct of thought drawn from a stream of subconscious detritus into the reservoir of her conscious awakening. She creates with the inquisitive mind of an octopus foraging through its shady garden on the ocean floor. Every work, a token re-cleansing of the body, mind and spirit is an attempt to navigate existential pathways through the world resurrecting the female image from the grave of western art.
An exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Sydney artist Louisa Chircop at The SHAC gallery Robertson
‘Come shower with me’ invites viewers into the intimate world of Sydney based artist Louisa Chircop. As the title of her exhibition suggests, Chircop not only utilises the idea of the history of women’s activity in the bathroom but also uses the concept of showering to parallel her creative process in an ode to free association and surrealism, similarly the way ideas come to mind in the shower.
Through Chircop’s experience and interest in art history and psychological phenomenons, she explores the human condition creating images that are illicit in nature, rendered with complex meaning and hints of the shadow self. Chance encounters are played out repositioning women in art history whilst simultaneously positioning herself in relation to history, creating a metaphorical allegory about our present time.
Chircop is comfortable as chameleon, every image is a reconstruct of thought drawn from a stream of subconscious detritus into the reservoir of her conscious awakening. She creates with the inquisitive mind of an octopus foraging through its shady garden on the ocean floor. Every work, a token re-cleansing of the body, mind and spirit is an attempt to navigate existential pathways through the world resurrecting the female image from the grave of western art.
’Degas Please don’t hurt me’ (Degas s’il te plait ne me fais pas de mal) 2019, mixed media on Arches, 76cm x 56cm
’Shower and Demons’ (Study for self portrait - A Shower with St Anthony) 2020, mixed media and photomontage on Arches, 76cm x 56cm
’Bath Blues after Whiteley’ (L’heure du bain blues-après Whiteley) 2019, mixed media and photomontage on Arches, 76cm x 56cm
’Bataille watches me’ (Baitaille me regarde) 2020, mixed media and photomontage on board, 42cm x30cm (Private Collection)
’Tinkering in Space’ (Bricoler dans l’espace) 2020, mixed media and photomontage on board, 42cm x30cm (Private Collection)
’Cleaner than her Laundry’ (Plus propre que son linge) 2019, mixed media and photomontage on Arches, 76cm x 56cm
’Rokeby Venus let down your hair’ (Rokeby Venus Laissez vos cheveux)2019, mixed media and photomontage on Arches, 76cm x 56cm
’Curtain call - after Bonnard and Whiteley’ (Coup de rideau- après Bonnard et Whiteley) 2019, Mixed media on Arches, 76cm x 56cm
’We still have today my darling’ (Il nous reste encore au jourd’hui mon cheri) 2019, mixed media and photomontage on Arches, 76cm x 56cm
’The giver after Degas’ (Le Donneur après Degas) 2019, mixed media and photomontage on Arches, 76cm x 56cm (Private Collection)
’Whiteley paints Rembrandt then I paint Whiteley and Rembrandt’ 2019, mixed media and photomontage on Arches, 76cm x 56cm, (Private Collection)
’Her cloud of furious suns’ (Son nuage de soleils furieux) 2019, mixed media and photomontage on Arches, 56cm x 76cm (Private Collection)
’Bacon whispers sweet nothings’ (Bacon murmure des mots doux) 2019, mixed media and photomontage on Arches, 56cm x 76cm
’Cézanne please give me a bandage’ (Cézanne s’il vous plaît donnez moi un bandage) 2019, mixed media and photomontage on Arches, 56cm x 76cm
’Origin of the world after a few other men’ (Origine du monde après quelques autres hommes) 2019, mixed media and photomontage on Arches, 56cm x 76cm
’Milk and Tar’ (Lait et gourdron) 2020, mixed mixed and photomontage on Arches, 56cm x 76cm
‘Cézzane tell Nolan I cried a billabong’ (Cézanne, dis á Nolan que j’ai pleuré un billabong) 2020, water colour and gouache and photomontage on Arches, 56cm x 76cm
’I am milk’ (Je suis du lait) 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 30cm
’Paradise and parasite’ 2019, oil and acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 30cm
'A mischievous moment in the dark garden with Yves Tanguy’ (Un moment malicieux dans le jardin sombre avec Yves Tanguy) 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 30cm
‘Cézanne’s keyhole to my dreams’ (Le trou de la Cézanne à mes rêves) 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 30cm
’Erogenous Bosch Dreaming’ 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 30cm
’Why not fuck Bosch’ (pourquoi pas, putain Bosch) 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 40cm x 30cm
’A shower with St Anthony’ (Self Portrait) 2020, oil on canvas, 210cm x 125cm