Arts Diary: Emma Phillips at Reading Room
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Untitled (Being Contained) 2024, oil on polyester, 15.5cm x 12.5cm
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EMMA PHILLIPS
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This release, via ReadingRoom -
"Emma Phillips (b. 1989, Sorrento) works across photography and the painted surface to explore the fluidity of the image and its potential to shape our understanding of the everyday. Through an intuitive process of making, Phillips collapses traditional modes of representation, offering instead a visual language that is both familiar and unsettling. Her work embraces failure as a generative force, where uncertainty becomes a catalyst for new possibilities, transforming the ordinary into something uncanny.
In 2021, she was commissioned by PHOTO Australia to produce the photobookย Send Me a Lullaby. This exhibition marks her second solo presentation at ReadingRoom, followingย Too Much to Dreamย (2019)."
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Untitled (Swimmer) 2024, oil on canvas, 14.3cm x 14cm
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Untitled (High Heel) 2024, oil on canvas, 10.cm x 12cm
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Untitled (Midnight Sun) Oil 2024, oilย on polyester, 12cm x 17cmย
This exhibition is showing at ReadingRoom, 186 High Street, Northcote until December 7th.
More details here.
Main image: Untitled (Dress) 2024, oil on canvas, 13.2cm x 12.8cm
Thea Basiliou
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