Niki Hastings McFall - Into the light

Lohengrin, 2009, mixed media

Niki Hastings McFall
Into the light
21 April – 16 May 2009

Opening 5.30pm Tuesday 21 April

Bartley + Company Art is very pleased to present this exhibition of new work by Niki Hastings-McFall. Niki’s latest works mark a new direction in her practice and explore her recent brush with mortality. While coping with treatment for cancer she found herself focussing on the macabre 16th and 17th century Dutch genre of Art Vanitas and its morbid fascination with skulls, rotting food and fading flowers – symbols of the brevity of life and inevitable death - and later upon Gothic art, stained glass windows, central European spiritualism and Wicca. Each sculpture is, she says, an allegory for some of those questions she asked herself about life and death and their meaning. Niki has had over 100 exhibitions in New Zealand and internationally. Her work is in a wide range of public and private collections.

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