Scarlett Cibilich
Harry Culy
Ayesha Green
Lucy O’Doherty
Moniek Schrijer
Kāryn Taylor
Christopher Ulutupu
Erica van Zon
Denys Watkins
Jhana Millers Gallery
Alan Ibell
A Place to Put the Ghosts
21 March – 11 April 2020
Alan Ibell, House at Dawn, 2020. Acrylic on canvas. 985 x 1310mm
Alan Ibell, A Place to Put the Ghosts, March 2020, Installation view
Alan Ibell, Hinterland, 2020. Acrylic on canvas. 430 x 430mm
Alan Ibell, A Place to Put the Ghosts, March 2020, Installation view
Alan Ibell, A Place to Put the Ghosts, March 2020, Installation view
Alan Ibell, A Departure, 2020. Acrylic on canvas. 620 x 830mm
Alan Ibell, A Place to Put the Ghosts, March 2020, Installation view
Alan Ibell, View from a Window I, 2020. Acrylic on canvas. 550 x 415mm
Alan Ibell, A Place to Put the Ghosts, March 2020, Installation view
Alan Ibell, View from a Window II, 2020. Acrylic on canvas. 625 x 455mm
Alan Ibell, View from a Window III, 2020. Acrylic on canvas. 625 x 475mm
Alan Ibell, A Place to Put the Ghosts, March 2020, Installation view
Alan Ibell, House at Night, 2020. Acrylic on canvas. 1080 x 1425mm
Alan Ibell
A Place to Put the Ghosts
21 March – 11 April 2020
Alan Ibell’s painting practice explores narrative and figuration alongside the uncanny and the Antipodean gothic. Borrowing imagery from dreams, memories, personal anxieties and existential musings — and wider sources ranging from classical mythology to pop music — Ibell creates visual allegories of a perilous paradise — tranquil, inescapable, disjointed.
Figures exist in surreal landscapes searching for fulfilment, be it spiritual or other, conveying a poetic or abstract visual experience.
In A Place to Put the Ghosts, Ibell experiments with new colours and forms, while returning to familiar themes and images — the house, the figure, the landscape. By resurfacing these motifs, as from the depths of memory, he gestures towards a type of ghost, that of the past self, half-forgotten but never fully erased. With these works Ibell encourages us to consider the nature of our own self-reinventions and place-building. Are we ever in control of where we put our own ghosts?
Alan Ibell lives and works in Auckland. He studied painting at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in Dunedin, and spent several years in Melbourne before returning to New Zealand in 2016. Ibell has been a finalist in the Wallace Art Awards and received 1st prize in the City of Dunedin Art Awards and the Edinburgh Realty Art Award.
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