Unnervingly uncertain in its voyeuristic gloom, Ashlee Laing’s Night Time is for the Boy Who Can Fly places its audience in a position of passivity in what appears to be an essentially intrusive situation. Three large wooden water tubs are posited within the centre of a darkened space, each featuring video projections of shirtless, confined males, gazing helplessly up towards the viewer. A sombre investigation of social and psychological states of confinement, the work of Ashlee Laing invokes disparate thoughts from sexuality through to thriller-film iconography.

Dreams, slumberous states, and their innumerable related trajectories and
associations are quirkily explored in
Dead to the World, an exhibition of artworks by Melbourne's Adam Cruickshank and
Dell Stewart (working collectively under
the guise of Sleep Club).
Delightfully eccentric and curious, Dead
to the World is a colourfully cozy display of drawings, sculpture and installation that
serves to intrigue its audience with an
amiable aesthetic, and furthermore
perpetuate musing regarding the enigmatic, enfolding and escapist phenomenon of sleep.
JD