Introduction -
Mike Portley - Disconnect
22 October 2015, 6-8pm (October 22 - November 8)
Kick Gallery 4 Peel Street Collingwood
Kick Gallery 4 Peel Street Collingwood
In Disconnect, Mike Portley has created a series of paintings and artworks that reflect and muse on a shift in human relationships with the environment, technology, each other and history itself. Portley’s own fascination with the changes in contemporary perceptions of the outside world are centred on the media and how personalised stories are manifested through a transformed media machine. It’s the disconnect between this personalised downloaded reality, the analogue world and society’s trajectory that Portley contemplates with both whimsy and alarm.