BLEACHED GOTHIC: National Gallery of Victoria

by Petrina Hicks

27 Sep 2019 – 15 Mar 2020

Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic wass the first major survey exhibition of photographer Petrina Hicks. Over her fifteen-year career, Hicks (1972– ) has gained a strong reputation for her large-scale, hyperreal photographs that subvert and disrupt the photographic language of advertising and portraiture. Hicks photographs children, animals and young women against simple backgrounds, returning to the same models and motifs frequently to define and hone her distinctive style.

Hicks’s photographs are notable for their duality; pristine and benign at first glance, the works are undercut with a sense of the uncanny. The tension between seduction and danger, familiarity and strangeness, intimacy and distance are present in many of Hicks’s works, which are rich with mythological and historical symbolism.

Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic included more than fifty photographs and video works spanning the period 2003 to 2019. Seen together for the first time, Hicks’s shimmering, enigmatic and surreal compositions convey the inherent ambiguity and complexity of the female experience. At a time when issues of gender and representation are more culturally relevant than ever before, Hicks’s photographs interrogate the cultural and visual representation of women and children in contemporary society and throughout history.

Petrina Hicks
Venus, 2013-2019
SOLD
Petrina Hicks
A Selection of Works, 2005 – 2019
Petrina Hicks
Lauren (eyes open), 2003
SOLD
Petrina Hicks
Ava and Zara, 2019
$6,000$8,000
Petrina Hicks
Ghostbite, 2008
SOLD
Petrina Hicks
Birdfingers, 2013
$6,000
Petrina Hicks
Serpentina II, 2015
SOLD
Petrina Hicks
Blue Bird, 2018
SOLD
Petrina Hicks
Birds Eye, 2018
Petrina Hicks
Bruised Peaches, 2018
$6,000
Petrina Hicks
Peaches and Velvet, 2018
$6,000$8,000
Petrina Hicks
Peach Study, 2018
$6,000$8,000
Petrina Hicks
Silver Bullets, 2018
$6,000$8,000
Petrina Hicks
Rattlesnake Blues, 2016
$6,000
Petrina Hicks
Shewolf I, 2016
$5,000
Petrina Hicks
A Woman Carrying Water, 2015
$6,000
Petrina Hicks
Persephone, 2015
$5,000
Petrina Hicks
Minerva, 2015
$5,000
Petrina Hicks
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 2015
$5,000
Petrina Hicks
New Age, 2013
$6,000
Petrina Hicks
Hand that Feeds, 2013
$9,000
Petrina Hicks
Infinity, 2011
$6,000
Petrina Hicks
Comfort, 2011
$6,000
Petrina Hicks
Into the Abyss, 2011
$6,000
Petrina Hicks
Lauren, 2011
$6,000
Petrina Hicks
The Forest, 2010
$9,000
Petrina Hicks
Sphynx, 2011
$6,000
Petrina Hicks
Breeze, 2010
$5,000
Petrina Hicks
Fertile, 2010
$5,000
Petrina Hicks
Fragrant memory, 2010
$5,000$8,000
Petrina Hicks
The Beauty of History, 2010
$5,000
Petrina Hicks
Eye Candy, 2008
$8,000
Petrina Hicks
Rosemary’s Baby, 2008
$8,000
Petrina Hicks
Babylon, 2008
$5,000
Petrina Hicks
Darkness follows, 2008
$5,000
Petrina Hicks
Ghost in the shell, 2008
$5,000
Petrina Hicks
Deb, 2006
$5,000
Petrina Hicks
Lauren in Blue, 2006
$7,000
Petrina Hicks
Excalibur, 2006
$7,000
Petrina Hicks
Jordan I, 2006
$5,000
Petrina Hicks
Gloss, 2011
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