Redland Art Gallery, Capalaba will have what appears to be a sweet treat for visitors with Brisbane artist Susan Gourley’s exhibition, A Consumer’s Guide to Unobtainable Happiness on display now until Tuesday November 27.
The irony is that this installation of seemingly luxurious, mouth-watering French-inspired patisseries has been constructed using salvaged waste.
This mimicry goes to the heart of the artist’s concern around mass consumerism in western culture.
Through A Consumer’s Guide to Unobtainable Happiness, Gourley seeks to understand the impulse and drive of this phenomenon and, in particular, ideas relating to ‘luxury’ and ‘taste’ as emotive agents for consumerism.
Visit A Consumer’s Guide to Unobtainable Happiness: Susan Gourley at Redland Art Gallery, Capalaba until Tuesday November 27.
For more information visit the Redlands Art Gallery website.
