Thu, 10 Nov 2011
"... Or I'll dress you in mourning", Flynn Morris-Clarke (None Gallery)
http://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/185886/art-seen (http://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/185886/art-seen)
Dunedin is lucky to have a large number of exhibitions on display around the city. Many of these are examination shows for polytechnic visual arts students. Among these is an intriguing exercise in self-exploration by Flynn Morris-Clarke.
Morris-Clarke has taken transsexual actress and Warhol "Factory" personality Candy Darling as an inspiration. Darling's very public exhibition of herself, her life and her transition from a he to a she has led to Morris-Clarke's transgressive, transsexual self-assessment in which he has repeatedly painted his self-portrait in drag.