Susan Flavell (expired event)

Compelling sculptural forms made from recycled materials respond to the climate apocalypse

Presented in association with the John Curtin Gallery

Susan Flavell employs magical thinking as a political strategy against climate apocalypse. Her art practice reveals notions of the fantastic, the monstrous and the mythical, applying a range of material strategies to create compelling sculptural forms. Driven by a fundamental commitment to the use of recycled materials, Susan’s work interrogates accepted hierarchies of material value. Everything in the exhibition, wherever possible, will be recycled.

Seven years in the making, The Horn of the Moon, 13 Goddesses and their Consorts is a beautiful and frightening carnival: a Day of the Dead procession, a celebration, a call to arms. Like a shelter housing mythical beasts and animate detritus, washed up on an apocalyptic tide, the darkened gallery spaces are overwhelmed with objects, revealed through shimmering spotlights.