Alison Moffett
10 March – 9 April 2005
43B Mitchell Street

For her first solo exhibition, Alison Moffett will present a new work. Moffett creates large-scale pencil drawings on paper. Within each piece she constructs worlds of artifice, intricately detailed depictions of impossible scenarios, turned possible through the artists meticulous rendering. These twisted stories whisper out of the darker parts of one’s mind, flowing from tales long forgotten, they elude the defining walls placed around reality. Moffett juxtaposes that which is known and understood, with the unexpected and the fantastic, slipping over the edge, ever so slightly, into the uncanny. Madness, through compulsive perfections, seems to be only a step away. Beauty and serenity seduce the viewer, bait that masks a deeper melancholy. The discomfort one might feel is augmented by a desire to know more: the voyeuristic appeal of a story that has shown only a fragment of its plot.