Dream Girls
Christiane Shortal / Daisy Biscuit / Tyla Jane Armstrong
- 19/02/2025 - 15/03/2025, 2025
- Curated by Tyla Jane Armstrong
- A century on since the birth of the Surrealist movement, the uncanny, the other worldly and the inexplicable never cease to illuminate the imagination.
- Ramp Gallery
Artists Christiane Shortal, Lissie Brown and Tyla Jane Armstrong gather as a collective of the unconscious, revealing a shared feminine surreality across their multi-disciplinary practices.
Artist Biographies
Christiane Shortal thinks of her work as unearthed archaeological findings, prophesying contemporary absurdities, hierarchies and longing. In this sense she considers her practice anthropological in nature, making sense of current human structures and rituals through an imagined history. Her practice forms a dialogue between human experience and the natural world—a conversation about power, balance, and ecological symbiosis.
Daisy Biscuit explores issues of contemporary womanhood using otherwise mundane materials such as reused woollen blankets. Exposure from early childhood to the medical sciences, human anatomy, and women as Other, naturally directed her towards surrealism as a means to articulate how she saw the world.
Tyla Jane Armstrong's (Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa ) artistic practice is a contemplative journey through the labyrinthine depths of her own psyche, embracing the imagination as an act of resistance against the apocalyptic spirit of the 21st century. Her haunting, hallucinatory visions traverse the desolation and abundance of being. Through the lens of myth, fairy tale, and dreams, she navigates the transformative potential of wonder.