Title

Wallpaper.

Collective title

CAST touring exhibition

Venues

Wagga Wagga Art Gallery [3] (8 February 2008 – 6 April 2008)

Date

(2008)

Summary

Multi-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (VIC). Prints, textiles, drawings, digital

Curator

Leong, Greg.

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

It is said that Napoleon's death was not an accident - that it was arsenic in the wallpaper of his house in exile on St Helena that finally killed him. Could earlier scrutiny of what lay on or below the surface of an apparently harmless, pretty but plain wall covering have saved him? Wallpaper showcases the work of five Tasmanian-based women artists who investigate the notion of wallpaper as a springboard for creative expression and as a backdrop for an exploration of personal history and for formal investigations of historical decorative design and artistic expression.

The exhibition, developed by Launceston-based artist and designer Greg Leong, features works by Christl Berg, Junko Go, Trudy Humphries, Sieglinde Karl-Spence and Menny Mason. Wallpaper is a platform for these artists to reveal their relationship to the patterns that have surrounded them, with works including digital prints, textiles, drawings, prints and assemblages. Whether an integral part of your interior design statement, or something you take for granted or use to scribble telephone numbers and childhood secrets, Wallpaper is something you love or hate but cannot ignore. [Gallery media]

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22 Mar 2025