ANNA GLYNN | AMUSEMENT | CURATED BY DR. NATALIE McDONAGH
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 - Sunday, June 1, 2025
Frances Keevil at Studio W - 6 Bourke St, Woolloomooloo Wed - Sun, 11 - 5
“Amusement - a tantalising glimpse into the art and mind of Anna Glynn.
The invitation here is to look. To look closely. Look very closely, for there is a sleight of hand at play here. Do not let your eye or mind be deceived by pleasing, playful appearances. These are deeply serious works drawing on immaculate intellectual, historical and environmental research. Glynn is an artist willingly, and very ably, taking an unflinching look at European ways of seeing and thinking about Australia since colonisation.
Standing in front of Glynn’s works in this exhibition you may find yourself having an Alice-Through-the-Looking-Glass experience, entering a strange world, complete with giant chess board. It may be unnerving at times but you will be rewarded in ways impossible to predict.”
Dr Natalie McDonagh
Curator
EXHIBITION LAUNCH
SATURDAY 17 MAY 4 – 6 PM
CURATOR & ARTIST IN CONVERSATION
SATURDAY 24 MAY 3 PM
RSVP: FRANCES KEEVIL 0411 821 550 / FRANCES@FRANCESKEEVIL.COM.AU
Anna Glynn
Extinction Game - Norfolk Island Kaka
2020
Pencil on Stonehenge 250gsm paper
95 x 62cm unframed / 120 x 80cm framed
'Extinction Game - Norfolk Island Kaka’ reimagines a historical portrait of an extinct Australian bird.
Surviving in captivity until 1851, the parakeet perches, a losing player.
The black and white chess board may refer not only to a game, to race, to colonial floorcloths,
to finance, to alternations of good and bad.
Anna Glynn
Extinction Coat of Arms
2020
Pencil, watercolour and acrylic on Stonehenge 250gsm paper
210 x 127cm
Anna Glynn
Extinction Game – Red-Crowned Parakeet
2020
Pencil on Stonehenge 250gsm paper
95 x 62cm unframed / 120 x 80cm framed