Now open through until the latter part of June within The Annex of Dido Haas’ Nitroglobus Roof Gallery, is a series of haunting monochrome studies by Sienna Dust. Entitled Lacuna (meaning “gap”) it follows on directly from Sienna’s April / May 2026 exhibition at Nitroglobus, Illicit Glimpse.
I did actually get the time to drop in on the latter during its run, but didn’t actually get to the point of writing about it at the time – shame on me. However, given that the one does somewhat follow-on from the other, a knowledge of Illicit Glimpse is not a requirement for appreciating what is offered here; it is approachable in an of itself. However, given their intertwinement in terms of themes, I’ll be mentioning both here.
Illicit Glimpse offered a series of black-and-white avatar studies (Sienna’s avatar, I believe). Each piece, beautifully framed, sat as a study in sensuality and femininity which both invited the observer into them, but which also wrapped within them the idea that what the observer might be glimpsing is what the subject in each image wants to reveal; a mere glimpse of an idea or emotion, the rest remained veiled – or as Sienna describes it, withheld from the observer. In other words, there is something of a void, a gap between intent and response; between seeing and understanding.
With the images presented in Lacuna, it is this void, this gap, that we are invited to explore and debate with ourselves as to what is being revealed and what is being withheld; to look for what might hidden within shadow or etched in part in light, and what it might add to each image and what it might still yet withhold.
In this, I’d suggest that another meaning of lacuna could be used when visiting this exhibition: “deficiency”. Not, I hasten to add, on the artist’s part, far from it; but within ourselves. For these are pieces which both artfully reveal and veil, that we are left wanting in our attempts to interpret; we can never quite hear the whispers of intent that lay within them.
A genuinely exquisite collection of images; one very much worth the time taken to see and consider them, whether one views them purely in the context of a series of avatar studies or within the wider context offered by Sienna.
Slurl Details
- Nitroglobus Roof Gallery Annex (Sunshine Homestead, rated Moderate)
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