studios
Mikala Dwyer, Spell for Corner, MCA, Sydney 2015
Mikala Dwyer, an apparition of a subtraction, Sydney Biennale 2010
Mikala Dwyer, Earthcraft, Govett Brewster/Len Lye art centre, NZ, 2019 photo Sam Hartnett
Mikala Dwyer, Earthcraft, Govett Brewster/Len Lye art centre, NZ, 2019 photo Sam Hartnett
Mikala Dwyer, Earthcraft, Govett Brewster/Len Lye art centre, NZ, 2019 photo Sam Hartnett
Mikala Dwyer, Play
MIKALA DWYER
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Mikala Dwyer’s compounds invite open-ended interaction and take the viewer across boundaries of time, space and geography. While playful and exuberant on the surface, they almost always impel us to imagine something darker beneath—or above. Ordinary and familiar materials draw us in, transformed so as to bring attention to the unseen or occult or what society banishes from view. Emerging from a deep and disobedient engagement with modernist form and space, Dwyer’s works have an eye on the future and relationship at their heart—they have been described as ‘profoundly sociable’.