The Thousands

Return to the spontaneity, freedom, simplicity and escapism of childhood with Polixeni Papapetrou’s cinematic images of self-determined young girls at play.

With the landscape of rural Australia as a recurring backdrop – representing a space full of possibility and devoid of constraints – the artist is drawing on childhood memories of unregimented play, and the times she spent with friends outside the home discovering worlds beyond her own.**Also opening on Thursday night at Stills Gallery is Beverley Veasey’s HABITATS, a series of black and white images of stark, man-made spaces devoid of life or movement; an interesting contrast alongside Papapetrou’s spontaneous depictions of children playing in the bush.