In celebration of our ten-year anniversary, Saint Cloche presents IMMORTAL, an immersive group exhibition curated by founder Kitty Clark. The 2024 edition of our annual Grande Finale exhibition features a dynamic assembly of past, present, and future artists, presented across our two spaces: our iconic gallery in the heart of Paddington and the newly renovated Atelier on our upper level.

IMMORTAL features a diversely enriching array of works evoking the timeless tension between order and chaos, centered on the cyclical nature of artistic and cultural movements. This concept of aesthetic and ideological nostalgia has long been dubbed the ‘20-year cycle,’ frequently applied to the cultural spheres of fashion and design.

Ensuing generational adoption of social media has led to the disruption of this established loop, eschewing top-down dictators of taste for a multitude of micro-trend influences that have disseminated cultural history into an artistic free-for-all. It is within this maelstrom of paradoxical influences we find which moments in art history, architecture, interior, and object design reveal themselves as timeless influences - as immortal.

IMMORTAL

“IMMORTAL highlights the ongoing importance of cultural movements - as both guiding voices and cautionary tales of the excesses of history,” reflects Kitty Clark.

Through delicate moments of material simplicity and deeply rigorous exercises in creative expression, this exhibition spans an abundant selection of media and artistic practices.

With new and existing works from Arne Ohlsen, Daimon Downey, Evi O, Greg Penn, James Brown, Jason Parker, Joshua Searle, Justin Scivetti, Katie Manekshaw, Lance Corlett, Margaret Fitzgerald, Mark Gowing, Max Doyle, Natalie Rosin, Not, Ryan Luo, Saxon Quinn, Skye Jamieson, Toni Clarke, and Will Lynes, IMMORTAL explores the contemporary disruption of nostalgia and our uneasy collective relationship with uncertainty.

From physical and intangible reflections on turn-of-the-millennium Y2K anxiety and architecture to ruminations on urban and environmental decay and beyond, the artists included in IMMORTAL provide a lens through which we reimagine history, creativity, and hope.

This January, step into an uncertain future together, as a new generation of prominent artistic voices redefines what it means to endure.