Mitch Cairns: Restless Legs

exhibition wall label Sydney artist Mitch Cairns (b1984) presents oil paintings, text-based bronze plates and a power pole sculpture in his exhibition Restless Legs, its title referencing the sensation he feels sometimes while reading in bed. This disparate body of work is informed by Cairns’ literary interests and influences, his inner-city locale and the humour and pathos of daily life. Language – the exchange of information through visual, written and verbal modes of communication – underpins several works in Restless Legs. Pictures of letters and numbers, quotations from books and text messages, and a recontextualised power pole (which formerly transmitted...