Ballarat Art Gallery, 30126279
Sat 17 Dec, 2016 – Sun 5 Mar, 2017
M-Rock(ing): The hangman’s garden.
Come one, come all. Come children whom are small, teenager whom are bold and those, whom aren’t too old; to digest the sickly neon drawings of Simon M-rock.
Born of Ballarat, M-rock is known for her talent in illustrations; as childish in nature as The Hangman’s Garden appears, it has a morbid conviction. In an imitate space in the Ballarat art gallery, we watch M-rock retell the story of The Gashlycrumb Tinies, written by Edward Gorey’s in 1963; in a alphabeticalized persona . A murdered of twenty-six of her friends meeting an inferno of motif and taunting sentences of