After All Desi Liversage

Currently featuring in the Blue Oyster’s Lower Gallery is Dunedin-based artist Desi Liversage’s exhibition of new work titled 'After All.' Working with a collection of found textile objects including small gilt-framed silk prints that feature well-known European portraits of women and children, as well as pastoral landscapes, Liversage stitches jarring contrasts into the images. In doing this, Liversage challenges the values to which the original works refer and rely on. In addition to stitching anachronistic and provocative material into the works Liversage also uses shweshwe and wax prints, African fabrics co-opted from previous colonial masters that add their own layer of complex history.

Presented alongside Silk and Lace: 13th Anniversary Gifts