“The Garden of Earthly Delights”
Glenn Barkley and Angela Brennan
12 Feb → 12 Mar 2016
Drawing on works from the Renaissance, such as Heironymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights (1503–1515) and Andrea Mantegna’s Agony in the garden (1457-59) Angela Brennan engages with the temporal instability of such works through improvised paintings, while Glenn Barkley draws on the surreal elements of the natural world depicted in these paintings in order to create a series of wildly animated ceramic sculptures and wall hangings. It is through the constellation of fragments of existing works that Brennan and Barkley playfully draw from and allow otherwise unnoticed affinities and correspondences to become visible.
Glenn Barkley is an artist, curator, writer and gardener based in Sydney and Berry, NSW. He is Co-founder and Co-Director of The Curators Department and of kil.n.it experimental ceramics studio Glebe, Sydney.
Angela Brennan has worked as an artist for more than 25 years and has exhibited regularly in Australia and overseas, including 35 solo exhibitions and over 140 group exhibitions. She is represented by Niagara Galleries in Melbourne and Roslyn Oxley9 in Sydney. Brennan has a BA (Painting), RMIT, and a BA, majoring in Philosophy, University of Melbourne. Angela has been awarded studio residencies in Spain, France, Italy and China.