March at KINGS

Overview

If you venture to KINGS Artist-Run gallery during March, you’ll find a three-fer. Three separate exhibitions are on display at the King Street space from Friday, March 4, all by up-and-coming artists with big ideas.

In the front gallery you’ll find RIP Angel (She Fell From Heaven and Landed in Our Hearts), a series by Melbourne-based artist James Parkinson. Parkinson has already won our hearts with his 2015 exhibition Free Time (which included a ball pit), and although the title of this exhibition sounds a little glum, the work itself is an exploration of the content of a sincere forum about a deceased cat found on an unofficial Disney website entitled micechat.com. And beyond that, it's a look at capitalism and our relation to objects.

In the middle gallery you’ll find a tableau by sculptural artist Natalie Philipatos and photographer Majed Fayad entitled Beauty and the West, which examines the role of the media in shaping beauty ideals. The side gallery will hold the work of Jessie Willow Tucker, who explores the uncomfortable relationship between high and low art in her self-consciously kitsch paintings, aptly titled Horse Sense. The exhibition runs until March 26.