Installation view of Sheila Hicks’ work Nowhere to go on display as part of NGV Triennial from 3 December 2023 – 7 April 2024 at NGV International, Melbourne. Photo: Sean Fennessy.
Sheila Hicks' monumental soft sculpture installation Nowhere to go (2022) is featured in the 2023 NGV Triennial. Piled high, the gradated blue boulders of pigmented fiber demonstrate Hicks’s capacity to change the experience of a space through a large-scale, site-specific work. Sitting in opposition to the hard surfaces of the surrounding environment, Nowhere to go demonstrates Hicks’s attention to architecture, abstraction, color theory, and painterly gesture.
Read “Painting space,” an essay on Hicks’ work by Donna McColm, Assistant Director of Curatorial and Audience Engagement at National Gallery of Victoria.
Sheila Hicks’ Nowhere to go is on view at the NGV Triennial through April 7, 2024. To learn more about the Triennial, click here.