Aylsa McHugh: NGV Melbourne NOW
Melbourne Now 2023 highlights the extraordinary work of more than 200 Victorian-based artists, designers, studios and firms whose practices are shaping Melbourne’s cultural landscape.
Aylsa McHugh was invited to exhibit work the National Gallery of Victoria’s major exhibition.
From the NGV Melbourne Now program:
Aylsa McHugh’s collage-centred practice draws on diverse influences, such as architecture, modernism, sculpture, film, fashion and mythology. Recontextualising found imagery from various media, her uncanny assemblages reveal the innate human tendency to find connections, patterns and familiarity in inanimate objects.
The artist’s latest work, commissioned for Melbourne Now, is an extension of her 2020 photogravure series, in which she merged collage and printmaking for the first time. McHugh lifts images from magazines and books, appropriating and combining elements from more than seventeen disparate sources. These heterogeneous materials, which include vintage photographs of hairstyle models and modernist sculptures, become almost unrecognisable in this compelling and unsettling work.
MELBOURNE NOW:
24 MAR–20 AUG 2023
FREE ENTRY
OPEN 10AM–5PM DAILY
THE IAN POTTER CENTRE: NGV AUSTRALIA, FED SQUARE