The Body’s Terrain: Benalla Art Gallery

Petrina Hicks

19 May - 2 Jul 2017

Petrina Hicks’ work is featured in The Body’s Terrain on at Benalla Art Gallery. The exhibition explores the strength, vulnerability and sensuousness of the naked body in relation to nature, land and environment.

Our physical impermanence and processes of change and decay are contrasted to the exquisite surfaces of skin glistening, glowing and exposed in the elements. A broad range of artistic approaches, from sensual and erotic to humorous and confronting, are depicted.

The exhibition includes iconic Australian photography by Olive Cotton and David Moore as well as work by Petrina Hicks, Tim Silver, Julie Rrap, Mike Parr, Patricia Piccinini, Bill Henson, Janina Green, Craig Holmes, Julie Reisberg and Norman Lindsay.