Opening // The Bachelor: A group exhibition curated by Andrew Nicholls

Name: Opening // The Bachelor: A group exhibition curated by Andrew Nicholls
Start: 2025-02-01T14:00:00+08:00
End: 2025-02-01T16:00:00+08:00
Location: Cathedral Square | 2/565 Hay Street (rear St George's Cathedral), Perth, WA, Australia, Western Australia

Schedule

Sat Feb 01 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC+08:00

Location

Cathedral Square | 2/565 Hay Street (rear St George's Cathedral), Perth, WA, Australia, Western Australia | Perth, WA

Amanda Bell | Jacky Cheng | Theo Costantino | Rebecca Dagnall | Elizabeth Edmonds | Eva Fernandez | Susan Flavell | Elisa Markes-Young | Anna Nazzari | Nalda Searles | Kati Thamo | Curated by Andrew Nicholls.
For over a millennium, the male nude symbolised power in Western visual culture, dominating cathedrals, palaces, and galleries as the ideal of civilisation. Victorian prudishness, Romanticism’s heteronormativity, and societal shifts sidelined the male nude, replacing it with the fetishised female body. Recently, the male nude has resurfaced, often as a comedic curiosity.
The Bachelor invites female and non-male artists to reinterpret this archetype, challenging its history through diverse perspectives. Inspired by Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare and pop culture’s ‘The Bachelor,’ this humorous, poignant collection examines objectification, heroics, and evolving archetypes.
The exhibition continues until 1 March 2025
Artwork: Kati Thamo, Birdman - Spinebill 2 (detail), 2024, graphite and coloured pencil, 35 x 23cm