Several works from my series, The Mirror Electric, have been acquired for the permanent museum collection of Australian’s most significant art collector and arts patron, Judith Nielson, founder of White Rabbit Gallery and numerous other arts foundations.
The Mirror Electric is a (skewed) look at the body image dysmorphia/objectification phenomenon happening in social media.
They are oil paintings on mirrored aluminium, so the viewer can see themselves in the artwork. The proportions echo an iPhone. With fluorescent backs and designed to sit out from the wall, the ambient light creates a glowing digital-like halo around these detailed satirical works.
Hanging in the collection alongside such artists as Ai Weiwei and Jørn Utzon, the instructions were that these paintings were; “never to be sold.”