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