Halfway House: Where Chaos Meets Critique
Artists
Co-curated by Pat Hoffie and Lily Eather, Halfway House invited artists from a range of backgrounds, demographics, cultures and experiences to consider key issues. Established artists Carol McGregor, Kevin Leong & Elizabeth Woods, Sally Molloy, Shannon Brett, Suzie Hawkins, Vanghoua Anthony Vue and Sara Iran Nejad work alongside emerging artists Christy McKinless Nalingu, Mia Boe, Visaya Hoffie and Josh Herd together with FireWorks stalwarts David Paulson, Jennifer Herd, Joanne Currie Nalingu and Laurie Nilsen.
FireWorks Gallery's long history as an independent, commercial gallery promoting experimentation and collaboration is continued in this exciting project. Co-curator Pat Hoffie comments, “Lily and I invited artists to respond to some of the invisible boundary-lines that criss-cross our contemporary world – definitions and barriers that restrict identities and states-of-being”. The mediums used are as diverse as the responses; artists are working with installation, sculpture, painting, photography and video to explore our shifting understanding of time, space, authority, memory, identity and family relationships.
