Message From The Meadow

Penrith Regional Gallery is thrilled to present South Australian artist Bridget Currie’s landmark solo exhibition, Message from the meadow. This exhibition was made possible through Adelaide Contemporary Experimental’s inaugural Porter Street Commission, supporting new artwork by South Australian artists.

Across her practice, Currie incorporates sculpture, furniture, film, and sound to explore the representation of abstract states of being, systems of thought and the vitality of life. Inspired by the way Modernist artists sought to represent spiritual states and religious ideas through abstraction, the central concern of Currie’s practice is bringing invisible things — beliefs, emotions and dreams — into the material world.

Message from the meadow is an exhibition alert to both the proximities and boundaries between bodies, objects and space: organic, abstract forms made intuitively by the artist serve as physical koans – things that exist to ask a question-, displayed amongst an ecology of bespoke domestic furniture that privileges intimacy and tactility. Currie has also constructed a sonic landscape of ASMR – autonomous sensory meridian response – and spoken text to accompany the viewer and assist in short circuiting the logical mind. Alongside this physical grammar of objects, Message from the meadow includes Currie’s new film, soft insides — a non-linear documentation of pre-language encounters.

3 December 2022 – 5 March 2023 

*The Gallery and Cafe at Lewers are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day and Good Friday.