Neil Emmerson

Wood nymph triptych
(the heart is a lonely hunter)

August 5 – August 13. 2006

Opening Sunday August 6, 3 - 5 pm.

Neil Emmerson takes traditional printmaking techniques into entirely new fields, freely combining printed images with a wide assortment of other media (including plastics, fabrics and recorded sounds) to create complex three dimensional structures and site-specific installations. These rich, allusive assemblages make gentle play with notinal oppositions – masculine and feminine, Eastern and Western, the public and the personal – throught which he explores cultural traditions, sexual politics and personal desires.
Neil, who presently lives in Darwin, NT, is a highly respected teacher as well as an artist of considerable standing, having held more than twenty solo exhibitions around Australia since 1983. He is represented in many public collections, including the NGA, the NGV and the Monash Univesity Museum of Art.

In September he leaves Darwin for Dunedin, New Zealand where he will take up a senior lecturership at the Otago Polytechnic.

This project, wood nymph triptych (the heart is a lonely hunter) is the first project for Neil at the Ocular Lab.