Exhibitions
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The Expedition
October 16 - November 16, 2009
SOHO Galleries: 104 Cathedral St, Sydney, NSW
After an interval spent creating several series of commissioned works, Tracy Dods returns to exhibiting this October. In The Expedition, at Sydney's Soho Galleries, she further develops her theme of the journey through corporate anguish and clearly identifies it as a metaphor for wider social isolation.
"It started one Friday evening when I watched what seemed like a herd of businessmen at 5.00 pm, homeward bound for the weekend and looking unimaginably depressed." Her theme became a complete symbol of a nine to five, cradle to grave male condition, leading to a life one hardly knows how to live.
Dods is considering varying her theme for future exhibitions to include the drabness of urban building design and has started painting this subject matter. For now, though, it remains focused on the beach and the allure of water.
»The Expedition featured in the Spectrum, SMH
»The Expedition media release [pdf ~20kb]
