Transfer by Angela de la Cruz

In her first solo exhibition in Australia since 2005, de la Cruz will exhibit works which defy categorisation: deconstructed and re-configured canvases, found furniture, and aluminium forms whose proportions allude to the human body. Corrupting the distinction between painting and sculpture, the works in Transfer are at once objects and images. Sometimes elegant, at other times abject, de la Cruz produces physically charged pieces that allude to intense emotional states: fear, vulnerability, stoicism, even the comic. These anthropomorphic forms can be suggestive of the role of painting in contemporary art; or the role of the artist in society.