Sacha Lees & Paula Collier Exhibition

View work by contemporary artists Sacha Lees and Paula Collier housed in an exciting Wellington gallery space.

Sacha Lees is a contemporary fine artist based in Pōneke. Her work provokes an uncomfortable and intimate conversation around gendered hierarchies. Lees folds in classical techniques to depict an
internal battle, creating a feminist bildungsroman. Her war stories and ecological concerns convey an awakening of her voice and body. The work Cassandra captures a self in flux towards critical feminist identity; or better still, “feminists need to look inside themselves to see what tyrants reside there" (Dawson). Lees's residual corporeal anxiety, executed with 17th-century Baroque painting practices, means that forms are restrained or exert themselves against consumer culture. Cassandra is a surreal push me/pull you mechanism sucking you down into Lees’s maestromic yearning for escape.

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