Here’s to my Sweet Satan

Here’s to my Sweet Satan is Julia Robinson’s first solo exhibition at Über Gallery.

Robinson’s latest series of works reflect a fascination with all things hellish. It continues a line of interest first seen in Robinson’s work ‘Infernal cake’, installed at Über Gallery in 2007. The structure of the work inverted the nine circles of hell, as prescribed in The Inferno, the first volume of Dante’s epic poem, La Divina Commedia.

Robinson employs ‘genteel’ arts such as sewing, embroidery, petit point and porcelain painting to convey this brutal and repellent content. This reflects her former involvement with dressmaking and costuming and her interest in all things theatrical.

Drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources, including passages from the Bible, films, myths and stories, songs and poems satanic in nature, Robinson aims to create new tales –  “In doing so, I become a sort of sculptural storyteller weaving my own narratives.”

The works in the exhibition play on a tension created by its medium and its subject, between that which is considered beautiful and that which is considered repulsive.

About Julia Robinson

Julia Robinson was born in Adelaide in 1981. Her art practice consists primarily of sculptural objects and installations which are inspired by scenarios found in fairy tales and legends. Since graduating from art school in 2002, Julia has exhibited extensively in Australia. Some recent exhibitions include ‘eat, wolf’ at the Project Space, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia; ‘Hatched’ at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art; ‘Petrified Nature’ at Downtown Art Space; ‘Thousand-fold’ (with Roy Ananda) at 151 Hindley Street, and ‘Primavera’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Julia is currently lecturing in Visual Language at Adelaide Central School of Art.

About Über Gallery

Über Gallery is committed to ‘art unlimited’; that is, art without borders of any kind. The gallery represents and exhibits the work of established Australian and international artists actively contributing to contemporary art discourse and promotes the work of emerging artists who possess the potential to do the same.