MARS Gallery is proud to present Miranda Hine at Sydney Contemporary 2025, Australasia’s premier art fair, exhibiting from 11 - 14 September at Carriageworks.
Gander extends Miranda Hine's interest and research into practices of preserving and assigning value to material culture. The new series of paintings presents crowd scenes from Antiques Roadshow, the long-running British television programme that presents a strange crossroads of cultural, historical, personal, private, public, sentimental and monetary valuation.
Hine distorts and frames through the painting process, pushing the already constructed composition and quality of the TV scenes. Ambiguous and with only small hints as to their original context, the images could be references to nostalgic family photographs or archival images from history. Who are these people? Why are they congregating and what are they looking at? Completing the spectacle, in Gander the onlookers themselves become the subject.
The series builds on Hine's critical fascination with formulaic British narrative formats including 'cosy' TV, and the comfort and familiarity these seem to offer Australian audiences.
For all artist enquiries, please email Andy Dinan at andy@marsgallery.com.au.