Home@735 director Madeleine Preston is a finalist in the 2017 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize. The exhibition will be opened this coming Friday the 13th of October at the Woollahra Municipal Council, 536 New South Head Road Double Bay. Pictured is Smoker Series – after Guston, 2017, ceramic and felt, dimensions variable photo by docqment

“…my new work uses Philip Guston’s later paintings, and specifically his pallette to create forms and groupings about the trouble we find ourselves in when we allow populism to succeed. The period Guston created his Nixon series in and the Watergate crisis resonates with todays political climate and the workings of the current US administration. Using media traditionally associated with the domestic – textiles and ceramics – the commentary is not literal or loud. Instead the work acts as an interloper between the internal domestic world and the external one of world politics…”