White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney

We had a great day in the city when we wandered with our friend Karen (she of the magnificent Library at Green Square) to White Rabbit Gallery.

The Gallery is contemporary, glorious, staffed by wonderful people and shows the astonishing personal collection of Judith Neilson.

The exhibitions are in place for about 5-6 months so there is the opportunity to go back again and again if needed.

This exhibition is called Shuo Shu - stories reveal themselves to those who are open.

The exhibition is curated so that you start on the top floor and wend your way down - three floors and each floor is dedicated to a particular element of storytelling.

These rocks by Gu Wenda, are hand carved with intentionally hybridised calligraphic characters wrapping around them. The twenty four stones represent the seasons of the ancient Chinese lunisolar calendar. The artist suggests that the work reflects on our modern distance from the cycles of the natural world. It was awe-inspiring and so beautifully presented in this darkened room. One could wander inside the circle, around the circle, between the stones...

Also on this floor was the work of Yang Wei-Lin. She likes literature, but says " I cannot use words for writing, they give me too much pressure". And so she turns to textile art to tell stories in another language.

The middle floor inspired me least; but I did fall quietly in love with these painted panels by Chen Danqing..

The ground floor simply took my breath away.  We wandered into it first and got completely absorbed, and then learned that we should start at the top. I had no idea what the exhibition was about when we arrived, we just moved in to this space and I was stunned into silence.  A moment of clarity and I realised what they were!

I was kind of thrilled that we got a second look at them when we arrived at the ground floor after our travels down.

Density 1-6 by Liu Wei have the appearance of stone but...they are made from compressed textbooks that have been cut into smooth, minimalist shapes. Simply stunning.

And for scale here I am, in a photo Karen took.

And here we both are in front of the globe. Still masking up in public...