Exhibitions

NOTE: This exhibition is showing at Backspace Gallery at at 43 Mair Street

'Siren’ is a word found in Homer’s Odyssey  to name the mythical female deities who lured seafarers into danger with their beguiling songs. Today, ‘sirens’ are an alert for urgent danger.    

Ballarat artist Kate Gorman draws upon both meanings of the word to express the impact of tourism, suburban growth and ‘progress’ on Victoria’s coastal landscape. While the lure of beautiful beaches draws increasing human settlement, this popularity is set to destroy the ‘untouched’ natural beauty people are drawn to.  Gorman’s delicate, half-human sculptures are designed to charm and lure the viewer into the artist’s underlying sense of environmental peril.    

Image: Kate Gorman, Messenger Series, 2022, bronze with gold leaf and hair. Courtesy the artist.