Pre-Medicated & The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You

Overview

In an odd, tucked-away little gallery in Pyrmont are two odd little exhibitions, one boarding a tripped-out ship to Planet Suburbia, the other stepping into a SUPERDOOPER HYPERDOME heaving with hues.

What? You may ask. I was also perplexed and so trekked for what felt like hours through a squelchy, hot sun to the Horus & Deloris art space, where I was let in by an anonymous female voice on the intercom. Inside, it was pleasantly cool, and empty . . . apart from some ginormous cut-out cartoon characters surfing on whale-map waves next to cash note skyscrapers. This gallery was Pre-Medicated, a collaboration between artists Jo Cuzzi, Scary D and Emma Pressman, comprising small-scale box dioramas, a video installation, and the huge wall cut-out that greets you as you walk in. Neon aliens, angry dice and florid tea-cups tumbled. I still didn’t really understand what was going on, and the exhibition description didn’t help much: “Way up, way down and way out, in the suburbs, on the beach and in the jungle the sense of imminent disaster wrestles genres and provokes uncertainty in an anti-climatic, multidimensional cardboard crisis.”

Upstairs was a bit calmer, with David Peddle’s debut solo show The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You. Except by ‘you’, he means ‘him’: “Through a process of exploratory elimination and faux-frenetic daubing, he seeks to explore the notion that the world truly does not revolve around him . . . Or does it?” These works were mesmeric slices of colour, suggesting shapes and shafts of light, but thankfully never truly arriving at anything literal. All the ones I liked were sold already — which is a shame because I probably also need reminding that I am not the Earth’s axis.

Horus & Deloris is owned by twins Caroline and Nick Wales. If these wildly different exhibitions are anything to go by, I’d say they’re not identical.