Winner of the 2022 South Coast Writers Centre Poetry Award, Erin Shiel, takes participants on an ekphrastic poetry journey through four different ways to respond to an artwork. She will use an artwork's symbolic device, the artist’s creative process, an imagined narrative, and an echo of the visual appearance of the artwork, as four separate keys for your inspiration.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Erin Shiel has had poems published in Mascara, Meanjin, Cordite and Australian Love Poems. She has completed her Masters research program at the University of Sydney in poetry inspired by Australian contemporary art, and is developing a first collection based on this work. She has previously been shortlisted for the University of Canberra VC Poetry Prize and the Blake Poetry Prize, and was the winner of the 2022 SCWC Poetry Award.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

THINKING THROUGH PINK
Curated by Dr Sally Gray
3 December – 5 March 2023

Pink is probably the most provocative and ideologically freighted of all the colours. Pink resonates across gender, sexuality, race, class, political alignments and notions of good and bad taste. Guest curated by Dr Sally Gray for Wollongong Art Gallery Thinking Through Pink carefully juxtaposes diverse cultural objects inviting pleasure and speculation around the many manifestations of pink – the colour and the idea.

The exhibition aims at an experience of pure visual pleasure, inviting visitors to suspend aesthetic judgements and bask in the visual and conceptual delights of PINK. Thinking Through Pink includes works from invited contemporary artists; works from the Wollongong Art Gallery collection and carefully selected objects from the Powerhouse, Sydney – notably ceramic and glass works from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries chosen for their visual, conceptual and historical resonances.