Words from Marygrove Gallery Director, Nicole Parker

Miss April: The work of April Segedi interacts with Billy O'Bryans work as they comment on imagery and narratives of beauty and the myth of beauty. April says in her artist statement "Yet even in lands of beauty and glitter,evil things creep about in false glamours". One cannot overlook the use of such image by O'Bryan. In a slightly different context, Miss April touches on fairy tales and myth, the disenchantment of one's expectations post fairy tale excitement, and Elizabethan or Victorian sensibilities by the aesthetics of the journal, skeleton keys, lace doily and vintage photographs of Rosebud and her Secrets. Miss April's images are slightly haunting or "beautifully grotesque", the nouveau gothic. In love with these creatures, many artists around the globe are working in similar context, using little girls, fairy tales and anthropomorphic figures. Filling fantastical landscapes and critiquing political or social ideals of a nation.

~Nicole Parker.