'Lots of Steel' by
Sybil Curtis is a new addition to the
Gallery stockroom that hails from the
Inside Outside series and features her technique of layered perspective. Her compositions document without being literal and her work preserves the industrial spaces that are quickly disappearing. Within the contemporary visual arts, these buildings have particular relevance as they are often reclaimed as venues for public display with the famous example being the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern, London and local examples of the Biennale on Cockatoo Island and the
Danks Street complex in Waterloo. In her recent exhibition,
Curtis displayed paintings of the buildings on Cockatoo Island used by the Biennale (pictured left) within the
Danks Street complex, establishing a metaphoric layering of artistic space much like the perspectival layering within her works.
Sybil Curtis, 'Lots of Steel' 2011, oil on linen, 100 x 100cm
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