lia mcknight
everyday sacred
14 september - 13 october 2018
In her exhibition, Everyday Sacred, Lia McKnight finds inspiration from the natural world to explore themes of life, death, sex and magic.
Enjoying an interplay between the real and imagined, McKnight's darkly humorous drawings and sculptures are at once alluring and disarming. They appear like mental maps to a strange and erotic terrain where suppressed desires and fears emerge as eerie dreamscapes. Intrigued by concepts of transformation and the interconnectedness of all things, McKnight's work speculates on the nature of being by referring to the everyday alchemy of growth and decay.
Drawing upon the inherent qualities of materials and their symbolic potential, her current work extends upon her ongoing interest in the sensual experience of objects. The sourced imagery and collected objects have been found around the bushland and coastline where she regularly walks: places close to her home outside Fremantle. By combining recognisable objects with the unreal or imagined, McKnight draws out their uncanny and erotic qualities, giving agency to these previously inanimate objects. Her drawings are at once beautiful and disturbing. Delicate lines and soft colours transcribe known objects that then exude dark dreamings of speckled spore and translucent seepings.
Lia McKnight achieved a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Edith Cowan University (1997) and completed a Master of Arts at Curtin University in 2005. She has been exhibiting in group and solo exhibitions for over 15 years. She recently developed the major exhibition, Sensual Nature (2018) in collaboration with Fremantle Arts Centre Curator Ric Spencer.
I acknowledge the Noongar Wadjuk people as the traditional owners of country on which I live and work. I wish to acknowledge their continuing connection to land, sea and community and I pay my respects to them and their culture; and to Elders, past present and future.
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