Nathan Gray has created a psychedelic wonderland of abstract works at the Utopian Slums Gallery in Collingwood.

In Love, Purity, Accuracy Gray presents an installation that combines his minutely-detailed drawing, woodwork, collage, paper marbling, silk screening, weaving and ceramics into a giant continuum.

A word from the artist...

"The show was initially intended to be my own version of a museum exhibit. I went to the osaka museum of ethnology recently and was blown away. All the best parts of all the cultures of the world were mixed together - masks, costumes, musical instruments, weapons and rituals. It was a completely different approach to a contemporary Australian museum. I tried to recreate some of the energy of this place by making my own masks and tools, but instead of being in some way ethnological, I realised how much I was being influenced by album covers and band posters. I guess this is my culture .

The work is a collection of collages. The exhibition is a very abstract representation of a fictional neolithic village with shelter tools musical instruments masks and decorations all made from paper that I've hand inked dyed, marbled or screen printed. As always it deals with my continued investigations into display and composition, the psychedelic and unseen, music, energy and colour. 

Love, Purity, Accuracy opens Friday 19th October 6-9pm @ UTOPIAN SLUMS 5/25 Easy St. Collingwood. The exhibition will run until November 11, open Fridays and Saturdays 12-6pm.