The Enchanted Forest: new gothic storytellers

February 21 - April 19 2009

Six of Australia’s most respected contemporary artists evoke a mesmerising woodland with intersecting storylines possessing both the charm and the implied menace of a Grimm’s fairytale.

The enchanted forest: new gothic storytellers is a spellbinding touring exhibition that trails the uncanny, charmed and cursed, whilst revisiting a time when animals and trees were thought to speak, when man was at the mercy of the forest, and the boundary between civilisation and the wilderness was less clearly defined.

From sculpture, installation and painting to digital imagery and printmaking, this special touring exhibition features around 30 newly-created and existing works by notable mid-career artists Jazmina Cininas, Deborah Klein, Milan Milojevic, James Morrison, Louise Weaver, and Louiseann Zahra-King.

Deborah KLEIN Eustixis laetifera 2007 from the series Moth masks
synthetic polymer paint on canvas Courtesy the artist