Courtesy: the artist and Nanda\Hobbs, Sydney.

In The Black Swan and Other Lost Poems, Jonathan Dalton’s provocative storytelling is at its best.

In visual terms, he provides us with enough pictorial information to become comfortable, before turning the world as it exists on its head. He leads us into a place where everything is not as it initially seems. This is a metaphor-rich exhibition—Dalton’s narratives are gifts from the history of humanity’s apparent rational thought—an endless supply of contradictions, absurdities, and failed truths—providing a rich vein for the artist to mine.

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