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Kushana Bush: All Things to All Men24 February – 14 April 2012, Hocken GalleryNow showing at The Pah Homestead TSB Wallace Arts Centre until 1 July 2012 Kushana Bush's latest satirical paintings playfully tout the impossible task of satisfying everyone's needs. Their delicate and alluring surfaces conflate disparate cultures, unsettle simplified notions of East and West and cut across cultural difference. Inhabited by a multi-cultural cast of characters, her amusing and imaginative group portraits draw on a range of art styles and epochs from Giotto's fourteenth century frescoes and erotic Japanese Shunga art to Indo-Persian miniatures and the twentieth century paintings of Englishmen Stanley Spencer. Bush's cosmopolitan art brings together constituent elements from all over the world in order to inventively reconfigure the geographical, political and social landscape of our time. All of the thirty-one intricately painted gouaches in this exhibition were created during Bush's year as the 2011 Frances Hodgkins Fellow. Kushana Bush, Mock Meeting, 2011 (detail), gouache, Collection of the Artist. Image reproduced courtesy of the artist.  Last revised: 23 April, 2012 |