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'Winds of Change' by Isaac Huggins
$2,800.00
Fibre-reactive dye, fabric ink and silkscreen prints on calico
Dark-stained wood frame
100 x 80 cm
Available to view in the Perth gallery
About the artwork
This artwork layers fibre-reactive dye, fabric ink and silkscreen on calico to partially hide its own title within the composition. Fragments of large letters appear across the surface, but they are broken up and obscured, making the words difficult to read at first glance. Beneath these shapes is a loose, abstracted version of a Rubens painting, known only to the artist, blended into soft washes of colour.
By hiding both image and text, the work encourages viewers to slow down and look closely. The mix of expressive dye work and bold printed letters suggests the way meaning can shift, fade, or be reshaped over time. Winds of Change reflects on transformation—how images from the past continue to move through the present in altered and unexpected ways.
About the artist
Isaac Huggins is a multidisciplinary visual artist, curator, and arts educator based in Perth. Working across painting, printmaking, textiles, and installation, Huggins’ practice critically investigates the psychological effects of advertising and mass media, and the shifting boundaries between cultural capital and commodification.
His work often merges gestural abstraction with screen-printed imagery and typographic forms, appropriating both historical and popular visual languages to question dominant power structures. His process-based experimentation aims to evoke the fractured nature of contemporary media landscapes, as well as the dissonance between historical artistic legacies and the aesthetics of consumer culture.