Katherine Hattam 'The Kitchen Chair' sculpture countering nature against modernity

countering nature against modernity

Philippe Le Miere’s ‘Alice in Kellyland’ reinterprets Australian modernism by merging the whimsy of Blackman’s Alice and the defiance of Nolan’s Ned Kelly

30 March - 24 April 1983 (label attached verso)

an emblem of progress

'Libra' 1988

Katherine Hattam 'The Kitchen Chair' sculpture countering nature against modernityA deeply personal motif in Hattams practice, the chair becomes a site of reflection and identity. In this small editioned blue woodblock print, domestic space is rendered poetic where memory and the self converge. 'The Kitchen Chair Blue' embodies Hattams distinctive language of symbols, transforming everyday objects into meditations on family, time and consciousness. One of Australias most collected contemporary artists, Hattams works are represented