Future Ghosts

Kirsten Farrell’s new exhibition Future Ghosts uses found plastic to make textiles that are layered and stitched. In this work, Farrell proposes that plastic should be re-evaluated as precious, honouring the materials aesthetic value through laborious craft-based processes. In abstract compositions, Farrell challenges the ongoing associations of textile as feminine and painting as masculine, creating works that are both familiar and unexpected. Ideas jostle for attention and are channelled into the work, without hierarchy, allowing them to coexist with the materiality of plastics. In this new exhibition, the artist questions the clear limitations of language to explain or emulate ideas and meaning found in art. Future Ghosts is an exploration of artists and the traces they leave in the world.