When
Wednesday 7 December 2022 - Sunday 5 February 2023 Saturday 10 December 2022, 5:30PM - 7:30PM
OPENING NIGHT: SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER 2022, 5.30PM - 7:30PM
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt”
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, 1969
In EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT, Alex Seton creates a series of glass installations that contemplate memory, forgetting, and loss with the passing of time.
Created specially for the cells of The Lock-Up, Seton presents a series of chandeliers in tribute to those made by Newcastle’s discontinued Leonora Glassworks. Each piece riffs upon chandeliers that were ubiquitous in the entranceways of clubs and RSLs of post-World War II Australia.
The title of the show refers to Kurt Vonnegut’s singular anti-war novel about the fire bombing of Dresden that dislocates linear time. The founders of the Leonora Glassworks started out making aircraft bomb-sights, but flourished when they moved into art glass.
The Lock-Up is open Wednesday to Saturday from 10AM - 4PM and Sunday 11AM - 3PM.