JACKY REDGATE: HYPNAGOGIA WITH MIRRORS - OLD AND NEW WORK, 1977-2023
WOLLONGONG ART GALLERY
26 SEPTEMBER - 19 NOVEMBER 2023

Hypnagogia with Mirrors is an artist project that encompasses some of Jacky Redgate's best-known works along with others previously unseen, and new and archival materials. In her work, mirrors are at once means and metaphors, reflecting other times, other dimensions. This show is also site-specific, playing on the Wollongong Art Gallery’s architecture, history, and collection.

One of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, Redgate has a practice extending across six decades. Emerging within the contexts of late modernism, minimalism and conceptualism, and feminism, she is known for her photographic and sculptural works exploring systems and logics, impersonal and personal.

Jacky Redgate: Hypnagogia with Mirrors: Old and New Work, 1977-2023 is proudly supported by the NSW Government via Create NSW.

View Redgate’s exhibition catalogue here.

“Hypnagogia is the transitional state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep. This term highlights the way I have persistently worked with dreams and hallucinations—and themes of childhood illness, convalescence, and migrations—while engaging with photography and optics, the ego and the body, and personal and institutional histories. Doublings and redoubling, reversals and repetitions, naturally occur in and between works in my hall of mirrors.” – Jacky Redgate