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Imprint | Charli English: Impossible Windows


29 Apr 2026 – 10 May 2026

Thursday 30 April, 6pm

Location: Cato Gallery


This exhibition presents a series of hybrid painting-sculpture works that examine the intersection of coastal erosion and the housing crisis, two converging forces that are reshaping access to beauty and belonging in contemporary Australia.
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Imprint | Charli English: Impossible Windows

Location: Cato Gallery


29 Apr 2026 – 10 May 2026

Thursday 30 April, 6pm

This exhibition presents a series of hybrid painting-sculpture works that examine the intersection of coastal erosion and the housing crisis, two converging forces that are reshaping access to beauty and belonging in contemporary Australia.

The works combine large-scale landscape paintings with three-dimensional fabric curtains, creating immersive installations that blur the boundary between painting and sculpture. Each piece is constructed primarily from reclaimed canvases, salvaged materials, and second-hand textiles, embodying a sustainable practice that challenges the art industry's environmental footprint. These works function as windows onto disappearing views, sweeping coastal landscapes witnessed from vantage points that are becoming increasingly inaccessible or vanishing entirely. The curtains frame each painting as a domestic threshold, invoking the intimate act of looking through a window at natural beauty.

Yet these are views that many will never experience: hoarded by wealth inequality, eroded by rising seas, or simply unavailable to those without windows to look through at all. The exhibition will ask viewers to confront a double loss: the environmental destruction of our coastlines and the social destruction that denies access to beauty and shelter. By transforming gallery space into a series of impossible windows, the work creates a collective experience of absence and a physical statement about what we're losing and who is losing it.


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