Rodney Glick
God- Favoured
Survey Exhibition
South Gallery
Overview
2008
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
For over twenty years Rodney Glick has been causing his audiences to turn around, to question who is talking to whom. Glick continually raises questions, twists expectations, distorts space and overturns the normal flow of time. His jests challenge, enmesh the viewer and leave them without a leg to stand on. He plays with scale, material and the boundaries which, in some places, allow art and the telling joke to be kept at a distance. Things that are assumed to be safely held in memory are dug up and turned over, revealing themselves as elastic as any other forms of representation. His stories, his art, operates at multiple levels, with layer piled on layer, and convoluted paths waiting to be found. Throughout all of this runs an abiding interest in narratives, particularly those of origin or which explain and justify the world and ones place in it.
John Barrett-Lennard
Selected extract from God Favoured, Exhibition Catalogue, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia