In The Despair of Faith All Items facing the viewer

facing the viewer

They recall glimmers of color theory and Venetian tonality

with the mop handles as dynamic as laser-beams

as writing the empire was as damaging as the gun

This portrait is from Green Dark

In The Despair of Faith All Items facing the viewerAcross various forms of media, Amy Gillies work utilises the possibilities of quotation and collage to connect lines of inquiry between the past and present. Her text based work is produced by collaging found source material such as art magazines and literary fiction. In the case of this work, a single line from her written work has been isolated and hand embroidered onto cotton. Having gone through multiple layers of mediation, the work is somewhat