NEW DEITIES

Friday 29 June - Sunday 29 July 2007

Curator: Catherine Wolfhagen

Artists: Emily Hunt & Raquel Welch, Jonathan Nichols, Grant Stevens, Monika Tichacek, John Vella, Tiffany Winterbottom and Paul Wrigley

New Deities brought together the work of eight Australian artists who address the cult of celebrity in their art practice. The exhibition explored the notion that celebrities have come to represent the new deities of a modern society, creating a new religion. While some of the artists approached the subject of celebrity with reference to their own lives and aspirations, others satirised the recognisable ‘victims' of what is often a short-lived moment of fame.

New Deities: art and the cult of celebrity, Catalogue

Paul Wrigley, 2007, p'diddy (detail),  Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 168 x 107cm	Monica Tichacek, 2002, Lineage of the Divine #9 (detail), Production still, DVD, 21:30min
Emily Hunt and Raquel Welch, 2007, I'm a celebrity, get me outta here! (detail), Multi media collage, 94 x 184cm	Tiffany Winterbottom, 2007. Girls night out in photoshoot (detail), Digital print, 160 x 120cm