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Barbara Hanrahan: Bee-stung lips, works on paper 1960-1991

January 21, 2023 - March 19, 2023

Barbara Hanrahan, Dog of Darkness, 1978. Hand-coloured etching with plate-tone, colour inks on paper, 35.5 x 25.3cm. Courtesy the estate of the artist and Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, SA.

Bee-stung lips surveys Barbara Hanrahan’s prolific 30-year printmaking career that was set in motion in 1960 and ended with her untimely death at the age of 52.

Characterised by playfully complex narratives that draw on both personal experience and fantasy, her works are fearlessly direct and unashamedly decorative in style.

Featuring 74 works made in her town of birth, Adelaide, as well as London and Melbourne, the exhibition considers several overarching themes that emerge from the artist’s oeuvre: sex, beauty and the stage; domestic comforts and anxieties; becoming plant, becoming animal; and celestial bodies and the afterlife. Here, mystical and earthly realms collide with concepts of time and mortality.  Hanrahan connects sexuality and desire with dreaming and spirituality, and links the farthest star to the humblest garden bee to make works that speak of the fragility of human existence.

This exhibition exemplifies Hanrahan’s mastery and innovation across the print medium including woodcuts, linocuts, screenprints, lithographs, etchings and drypoint, and celebrates her singular and uncompromising practice.

 

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Details

Start:
January 21, 2023
End:
March 19, 2023

Organiser

Murray Bridge Regional Gallery
Phone
+61 885391420
View Organiser Website

Venue

Murray Bridge Regional Gallery
27 Sixth St
Murray Bridge, South Australia 5253 Australia
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Details

Start:
January 21, 2023
End:
March 19, 2023

Organiser

Murray Bridge Regional Gallery
Phone
+61 885391420
View Organiser Website

Venue

Murray Bridge Regional Gallery
27 Sixth St
Murray Bridge, South Australia 5253 Australia
+ Google Map