The survey exhibition – Bleached Gothic – features works from 2003 until 2019 and many of these works have not been displayed together before. The photographs feature young women; children and animals displayed against modest backgrounds and many of the photographer’s models are used frequently.
Hicks’ works subvert traditional images of beauty and explore how children and women have been perceived in both historical representations and today’s society.
Her photographs have been described as:
“notable for their duality; pristine and benign at first glance, the works are undercut with a sense of the uncanny. The tension between seduction and danger, familiarity and strangeness, intimacy and distance are present in many of Hicks’s works, which are rich with mythological and historical symbolism”.
The National Gallery of Victoria has produced a monograph to accompany the exhibition and this will be available from the gallery.
Art galleries often utilise printing services including flyer printing both to advertise upcoming exhibitions and to promote permanent artworks housed in the gallery.
The online exhibition will run from the beginning of September through until the end of October. For more information, and to visit the exhibition online, see the National Gallery of Victoria website.