what
what
From
Thursday 19 June 2008
To
Saturday 12 July 2008
Url: http://www.blockprojects.com
“One of the most exciting and fearless young artists around,” Sebastian Smee, 2007
what is an elusive artist. His work presents a disturbing but compelling fascination with mortality – in particular his own. Drawing on his mundane day job as a casual library assistant, what explores the potentially horrifying effects of mediocrity and apathy.
The centrepiece of this exhibition is titled Self Check-Out Terminal – a hospital bed with a chainsaw mounted where the patient’s neck would lie – it is amusing as it it alarming. In this, his first solo exhibition in Melbourne, what delivers a collection of works that will intrigue and unsettle – curious as the man himself…



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