Hard Work is an exhibition of new work by Dominic Reidy and Jack Rodgers. Rodgers paints portraits of fishermen from photographs found on the walls of his local fishmonger. These paintings are a celebration of his family’s trips to the ‘fisho’ and a satirical poke at tanlines, beer guts and Aussie male past times. Reidy is similarly interested in the rituals associated with an ‘Aussie’ identity. His small sculptures aim to document and question the way dominant masculinity is presented and performed in a culture where seemingly meaningless rites of passage take place around blowmould altars.
Image: Dominic Reidy, Dirty Deal 2025, Ceramic, approx. 5 x 15 x 8 cm
