SUPER NATURAL SUBLIME

17.04.09 – 09.05.09
Opening: Thursday 16.04.09 6-8pm
Free Artist Talk: Thursday 07.05.09 12.30-1.30pm

Gallery 1

There is something inherently old-world about greenhouses. They represent our cultural desire, born of the Enlightenment, to collect, categorise and control our surrounding natural environment. And yet, there is also a touch of the primeval about these murky, mildewed constructions and their tendency toward the exotic and overgrown – a genetic recollection perhaps, of a distant past spent roaming steaming jungles…

SUPER NATURAL SUBLIME envisions a post-apocalyptic, phantasmagorical greenhouse; one which fuses cheap theme-park spectacle with a DIY approach to natural history and the generation of artefacts. One part ghost-ride, one part ecological nightmare; this installation demonstrates the bizarre paradox of humankind’s simultaneous fetishism and complicit destruction of the natural world.

Melbourne based artist Andy Hutson constructs momentary sculptural installations that range from the miniature to the monolithic. Having completed his Master of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts last year, he is now patiently anticipating the end of the world.