Redbase Art Gallery proudly presents The Evolution of Angels by esteemed figurative drawer, Michael Esson. The juxtaposition of ugly and beautiful (美与丑), has run as an undercurrent across his career, where he examines the fluidity between the two terms. Reflecting on recuring iconographies, images of rats, butterflies, ribbons, and human anatomy take on complex meanings. Rats, for example, once “harbingers of death” in the form of plague are now a positive subject of research assisting numerous medical and psychological advances in social behaviour. Esson grapples with their changing forms within the expanded scope of drawing history.
We pay our respects to the Gundungurra people who are the traditional custodians of the land. We acknowledge Elders past, present and emerging for their immense spiritual connection to place which was never ceded.
