In The Kitchen Sink

1st April - 2nd May, 2010

Officially opened by the Honorable Maxine Morand
Minister for Children and Early Childhood Development and Woman's Affairs

Priscilla Bracks

Emma de Clario

Nicholas Jones

William Kelly

Bronek Kozka

Amber McCaig

Rebecca McLean

Rosetta Pavone

Carly Preston

Geoffrey Ricardo

Susan Reddrop

John Scurry

Stuart Spence

Kate Spencer

Meg Williams

Jud Wimhurst

Louiseann Zahra-King


In the Kitchen Sink is a group show by 13 artists all working in diverse mediums. The show will include works ranging from sculptures of lint gathered from a washing machine and a series of antique doilies encrusted with 18 carat gold, to books carved with the indexes of house hold implements.


This show will examine the role of our domestic goddess today and what domesticity in the suburbs really means.


Suburbia is where the real crime is happening in Australia today, and is a theme that is continually reoccurring in so many Australian artists practices today. Is social status in the suburbs the new Australian obsession? It can be a celebration of the domestic or a fear of what the suburbs are breeding. Just how far will the craving for a McMansion take you? Titled ‘In The Kitchen Sink’ because everyone wants to be in the kitchen at a party, and domestic dreams go down the sink very quickly.