Question received at Central Goldfields Art Gallery on 13/2

‘The significance of the Angels/Butterflies wings with the jewelled clips?’ Beryl Allan.

Dear Beryl,

Good question! Perhaps you will have time to return to B, B & B and have a close look at Celestial Inversions The Book as it is the key to understanding the pinned gold wings…Often we come to exhibitions with our minds made up as to what art we will like or tolerate. The same holds true about spirituality. This art invites you to consider these biases as ‘bugs’ to the system.

Have you ever visited a natural life museum and inspected the drawers of insect specimens, neatly documented with obscure differences? This was the inspiration for these ‘pests’ which infect society – interesting to consider but poisonous in possible magnitude if not eradicated. The jeweled pins represent the scientific categorizing and the idea that we unwittingly often pride ourselves / pin ourselves to the most damning aspect of our personal outlook.