Opening Event - The Power of Delicacy - Micky Allan
Saturday 5 July, 2pm
The Power of Delicacy - Micky Allan
Sinclair Gallery
5 July 2025 - 26 October 2025
A sense of simplicity, a sense of complexity, why not both in the same continuum? Realistic detail can be glorious, abstract space just as ‘full’ of whatever it is that moves us, which is what counts. I aim to create places for the viewer to roam in their own responses, hopefully into hints of the previously unknown in quite that way. Adventure! Into both mystery and platitude, commonplace and strange.
Engraving glass panels, sometimes on both sides, before it being placed over works on paper, lets me play with layering in more ways than one. Transparencies abound! The process is tricky, using a dentist drill with changing drill points and keeping water flowing over it with the other hand so the glass stays cool, but despite the noise, I continue to be drawn into its orbit. Look how it can create the silver light of night!
Night and day, seasonal shifts, deep sea to far space, everything in constant interaction and change. Everything ‘dies’ and renews every second. I seek to find it beautiful.
Micky Allan
July 2025
The Power of Delicacy will be opened by Gael Newton, renowned historian and curator. Since 2014 Gael Newton has worked as photographic arts consultant and valuer. Formerly curator of photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Senior Curator of Australian and International Photography at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Newton has worked closely with Micky Allan in placing her archive in collections.
Image: Micky Allan Nightlight 1 2024,engraved glass panel over pastel and synthetic polymer resin on paper in painted and collaged wooden frame. (detail) Courtesy of the artist Image: Micky Allan
