The Electorate is Nicky Hirst's third solo show in the gallery. The exhibition centres on uncertainty, transience and humanity. Working in a variety of materials found discarded on urban streets, her interests include layers of history, people and places. Her inspiration and source material comes from a mix of observation, conversation and language. The phrases 'lost in translation' and 'the presence of absence' permeate the exhibition.
The Electorate at Domobaal Half Listening and Swung Dash, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
Half Listening, 2022 Didn’t Socrates say, ‘I know that I know nothing’? No wait, apparently Socrates never wrote anything down, so we have to believe the writings of his student Plato, who said he said that. Though others at the time said Socrates only ever asserted that he believed that he knew nothing, having never claimed that he knew that he knew nothing. Later, Aristotle famously wrote, ‘The more you know, the more you know you do not know.’ Though isn't this quote often attributed to Einstein?
Swung Dash, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
Swung Dash and Sproftacchel, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
100 Years (Obstruction 1920 by Man Ray re-made) 2020 Photo: Andy Keate
100 Years (Obstruction 1920 by Man Ray re-made) 2020
The Electorate at Domobaal, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
Unreliable Narrator, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
The Electorate at Domobaal, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
Pinch Point, 2022
MERRY CHRISTMAS and Eleventy, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
Eleventy, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
Eleventy (detail), 2022
MERRY CHRISTMAS and Eleventy, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
Rhombus Remake, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
The Electorate at Domobaal, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
Rhombus Remake, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
Truant, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
Chadwick Road, 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
Chadwick Road (detail), 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
18b25 Remake, 2018 - 2022 Photo: Andy Keate
Chadwick Road, 18b25 Remake, Eclipse and Dummy Photo: Andy Keate