The Secret Life of Stuff

In the 80’s Eileen Agar made a powerful series of rock paintings using photographs taken in the 1930’s and drawing on memory and the subjective nature of her imagination. The curators of ‘The Secret Life of Stuff’ explore notions of the unconscious, and intentionality in Agar’s work, and in the work of Catherine Ferguson, Bernice Donszelmann, John Gibbons and Della Gooden, where complex meaning emerges from the materiality
of the work itself; immanent forces are found in the object and the materials used to make it.