YESTERDAYS NEWS

Natalie Thomas

Friday 6th July 2012 - Saturday 11th August 2012

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I’ve heard it argued that it doesn’t matter if Gina Rinehart has editorial control over the remnants of Fairfax newspapers because no one is compelled to read them anyway. But what if Gina was to offer something so delicious, so delectable and so salacious that it was impossible to resist? It is the explosive cocktail of megalomania and human frailty that Yesterdays News is concerned with. Media saturation has been a recurring theme in the work of Natalie Thomas, possibly because there is no point of satiation in sight. She does not take an academic approach to Yesterdays News, being an artist who works from the content rather than as an observer or bystander. From this place Thomas invites her audience to share her experience - ironically, an experience in which they are already profoundly immersed but would not have considered in quite the same way.

Image: Natalie Thomas,Yesterday’s News, 2012, Video still