'Feathering Nests' - Gigi Hesterman
What constitutes a good life? How is it measured? What is measured? Is it measured in qualitative or quantitative terms?
Ideas relating to social norms, and the impact of consumerism on the social structure of our community are of continuing interest to me and provide a base for this body of work.
Feathering Nests explores ideas pertaining to self-identity, transience, life values and choices, the fragility and vulnerability of our social fabric and the notion of preciousness.
The work makes use of a repertoire of personal symbols including the painted egg shell. The shell is a fragile, decorative, hollow object of little intrinsic value. It is used as a metaphor for those consumer goods with which we feather our nests.
Gigi Hesterman 2007
(Selected images from the 'Feathering Nests' exhibition)

A Difficult Manoeuvre
oil on canvas 2007, 1100 x 850mm
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Blowing It
oil on canvas 2007, 1000 x 530mm
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Choices
oil on canvas 2007, 490 x 345mm
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Concrete Nest (2)
acrylic on canvas 2007, 720 x 840mm
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How to Play the Game
oil on canvas 2007, 1100 x 850mm
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Opening Manoeuvre
oil on canvas 2007, 490 x 345mm
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Simply Complex
acrylic on canvas 2007, 840 x 720mm
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The Blender (Reflection Series)
acrylic on gesso board 2006, 450 x 360mm
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The Kettle
acrylic on gesso board 2006, 450 x 360mm
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The Playing Field
oil on canvas 2007, 480 x 345mm
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The Stash
oil on canvas 2007, 1100 x 850mm
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The Toaster
acrylic on gesso board 2006, 450 x 360mm
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THIS SIDE UP (3)
acrylic on canvas 2007, 250 x 250mm
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THIS SIDE UP (4)
acrylic on canvas 2007, 250 x 250mm
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Walking on Egg Shells
oil on canvas 2007, 1100 x 850mm
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