Creep Hole is to be read against the repressive registers of the present, the ideological underpinnings of which are so reliant on ‘phantasmal’ forms of deceit and avoidance. The 3 primary pieces ( Back Door Hole, Front Door Hole and A Little Bit Norman ) are developments in a project to re-envision the Bates house from Psycho according to the US Government’s FEMA manual for hardening buildings against conventional, biological, nuclear and chemical attack.

Shaun Kirby is a Melbourne-based artist whose work most recently featured in the major survey show Interesting Times at the MCA in Sydney and in Random Access at the McClelland Sculpture Gallery. He completed a second Masters Degree at Amsterdam’s Sandberg Institute on a Samstag International Art Scholarship, where his research centred on the relationships between the built environment and memory (both social and singular) and the production and experience of social space.