Kaye Mahoney

Kaye Mahoney

Writing on the Wall

3 - 17 May 2025

Exhibition opening with the Artists

to be launched by

Craig Foster AM

Amnesty Human Rights and Refugee Ambassador

Sunday 4 May 2025

2.30 – 4.30 pm

Writing on the Wall
Kaye Mahoney’s show features large scale multi-media interactive installations made up of multiple works that she describes as multidimensional "blow ups" drawn from ideas in her sketch books.
The first installation, a collaged mural, titled, “Orwell’s Writing on the Wall” is a visual presentation of ideas from, “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. The focus is on a passage in the novel in which Orwell (through the words of O’Brien, a party official) predicts a future governed by oppression, hatred, power for its own sake and the manipulation of human minds. The mural’s principal element is text drawn in charcoal and chalk. Light and shade in the imagery is created by the layering of the writing. It is infused with personal symbolic references that echo the state of imprisonment, torture and the sheer loneliness of incarceration.
The second, “Liberty and Extinction in the Garden of Hope”, is an interactive installation that focuses on the world-wide crises of extinction - extinction of the natural world and the extinction of liberty and democracy.

Kaye Mahoney
Kaye Mahoney is a Thai born Australian American multimedia artist. Her wide-ranging expressive tools include video, installations, painting, text, assemblage and music. Many of her works are conceived as platforms for experimentation and interaction. In her early years, after completing an MFA program at the New York Academy of Art, Mahoney trained in Italy and practiced as a muralist specializing in fresco. Mid-career, she was represented by Dillon Gallery in Chelsea, New York and exhibited regularly in France and Italy. Since moving to Australia, Mahoney’s shows have included a major solo exhibition at the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, solo exhibitions in Sydney at Art Atrium and a show at Lesley Heller Gallery, New York. Mahoney maintains studios in Sydney and France and is represented in Sydney by Art Atrium. 

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