Dane Mitchell

Mitchell's work is an attempt to understand and articulate — in the artist's own words — the place "where both the scientist and the shaman illuminate the unseen"; the boundaries of perception and invisibility.

Two new works for the 2012 Biennial are presented. The first takes the form of a wallpaper, which covers the upper rooms of The Munro on Duke Street — a building which dates back to 1756. The design of the wallpaper, which at first appears as a familiar domestic pattern, is printed with an interlocking diagram that references and adapts Marcel Duchamp's equation "A Guest + A Host = A Ghost". In the same space a series of hollow glass objects: containers or traps for ghost stories. The sculptures take shape and harden as local tales are spoken into the molten glass by the artist.