Making is Matching

Making is Matching
Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
5 September – 4 October 2025

Exhibited artists: Janina Green, Darcey Bella Arnold

Janina Green has established an extensive photographic practice over 30 years, making observations about domesticity, motherhood, reading, teaching, sexual politics, theory and psychology. Born in Germany and migrating to Gippsland, Victoria, in 1949, she spent her childhood in the small country town of Yallourn North. Her early years spent in this rural-industrial setting greatly influenced the artist’s understanding of identity as a fluid and dynamic concept, which is powerfully conveyed in her work. Recent years have seen Green cutting and layering photographs and images from her archive, as well as creating new images.

Darcey Bella Arnold works between painting, sculpture and drawing in a research-based practice that anatomises language to annotate its necessity and fallibility. Arnold deploys strategies of metaphor, recollection, double entendre, repetition and humour to examine familiar histories, obfuscate conventional symbolism and re-examine cultural touchstones. Individual works often correspond both spatially and conceptually, drawing viewers into installation driven environments. Kinship and familiarity punctuate an inventive pictorial world that is constructed through liberal samplings from art history, contemporary politics, personal archives and popular culture. Exploring the verbiage of institutional pedagogies through a decisively subversive approach, Arnold relieves and relates familial experience to cultural production.

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