Forever For Now, Michael Doolan
WHAT
FOREVER FOR NOW, MICHAEL DOOLAN
WHERE
THE DEPOT GALLERY, 2 DANKS ST, WATERLOO
WHEN
TUES-SAT 11AM-6PM
RUNS UNTIL NOV 22
HOW MUCH
FREE
CONTACT
KAREN WOODBURY GALLERY OR THE DEPOT GALLERY
IMAGE
FOR NOW AND FOR EVER (DOG), 2007, CERAMIC WITH PLATINUM LUSTRE, 62.0 X 60.0 X 30.0 CM
Comparisons between Melbourne artist Michael Doolan and a certain Mr Koons are obvious, but it's Doolan's use of materials that sets his work apart.
With a background in ceramics, he recreates cheap, mass-produced, pint-sized, moveable children's toys with traditional ceramic modelling techniques; instilling in them rarity, fragility and fixity.
Glazing them up to a dozen times, the cold, perfected platinum lustre finish refects everything back at the viewer.
Staring blankly, his up-scaled characters from toyland are hard, faceless, motionless and impenetrable, sitting somewhere between childhood and adulthood, living and dead, innocent and sinister. They're standing stoic in a gallery on Danks Street now, awaiting you.
Medium: Sculpture
Drink: Double espresso
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