More Love Hours brought together selected works by thirteen contemporary Australian artists who use craft media, techniques or processes in their practice. While the works reflect significant stylistic and thematic diversity, the exhibition demonstrates how artists use ‘traditional’ forms of creativity – ceramics, embroidery, weaving, papercraft – to express contemporary values and complex ideologies.
More Love Hours than Can Ever Be Repaid is the title of a 1987 work by influential late American artist Mike Kelley. Subversive, self-referential yet playful, this seminal work channelled the artist’s career-long interrogation of gender stereotypes, the art market and the division between categories of creativity. Some decades on, More Love Hours continued Kelley’s enquiry at a time in which the difference between ‘craft’ and ‘fine art’ was less clear than ever, and demonstrated the creative freedom this expanding threshold allows.
Exhibition artists: Stephen Bird, Fiona Cabassi, Dana Harris, Newell Harry, Rhys Lee, Raquel Ormella, Julia Robinson, Vipoo Srivilasa, Hiromi Tango, Anton Veenstra, and Yarrenyty Arltere artists Dulcie Sharpe, Louise Robertson and Rhonda Sharpe.
Curated by Suzette Wearne.