“Rainbow Eaters”
Nick Selenitsch, Kirra Jamison, Paul Yore and Valentina Palonen
20 Apr → 12 May 2012

Rainbow Eaters brings together the work of four contemporary artists who use emphatic and flamboyant combinations of colour to create talismanic imagery. Although stridently unique in their approach, colour is an intuitive and foundational aspect of practice for each artist in Rainbow Eaters, and it is through colour that these artists explore subjective understandings of spirituality. Each artist has a sense of ritual in their making process, intuitively compiling colour into discordant and lurid arrangements to create these sacralised objects. Some fetishise the synthetic hyper-colour of mass-produced objects, in doing so creating strange objects of reverence, while others employ obsessive, ritualistic processes to produce vibrant, playful and at times disconcerting psychotropic artifacts.

This exhibition is kindly supported by a Janet Holmes à Court Artist Grant. The Janet Holmes à Court Artist Grant is a NAVA initiative, made possible through the generous sponsorship of Janet Holmes à Court and the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.