Wind Now

Overview

Some unexpected things have long artistic history. Cabbages for example, or horses in distress. Drapery hasn't always seemed synonymous with huge excitement, but it's an insanely popular motif that's been used for thousands of years to run contrast to sculpted marble bodies. The National Gallery of Victoria was so taken by the technique that it ran a whole exhibition on the theme of folded fabrics earlier this year, and New York's Metropolitan Museum has favoured the idea as well.

At the edge of Redfern, artist-run Locksmith Project Space is about to take its turn. Anna John's Wind Now takes its name and inspiration from two albums by South-Korean seventies rocker Kim Jung Mi. The exhibition plays drapery against abstract skeletons of figures or buildings. Anna has put together anti-figures in the past — the detail's there, but the bodies have gone elsewhere to be implied by what remains. Along with such things, Wind Now also owns to a series of TV backdrops imagined for Kim Jung Mi. A half of Knitted Abyss, a third of Holy Balm and 50% of 2SER's The Modern Dance, Anna John has had her musical groove on at the Locksmith before. Now step in and see her art there, too.