Attachment Styles

This display considers State Art Collection works from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries through the now ubiquitous lens of ‘attachment styles’. Bridging psychological, self-help and artistic cultures, Attachment Styles offers works depicting subjects who may display signs of possessing avoidant, anxious, or disorganised relational styles. In doing so, it offers various reflections on how artists have made works that are formed by (and comment on) the tensions underpinning the complex romantic, social and political bonds between people and places. The show’s conceptual framing device also encourages us to playfully consider how we might approach art itself from our own attachment styles.