Australian artist Newell Harry is fascinated by Bislama, the pidgin dialect of the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. Based on the artist’s travels, the 18 works in Harry’s debut solo exhibition result from poetic collisions of Bislama with English and Afrikaans, his mother's native language. Messy black-and-white oilstick drawings and neon sculptures — placed in and around rustic objects, such as primitively ornamented drums and urns, or mounted on walls — spell out ambiguous slogans. A series of pandanus mats, woven by women of Mataso Island to Newell's specifications, are mounted on another gallery wall with the studious air of an ethnographic museum. Each mat's design incorporates cryptic messages like "Cape Malays / Cape Malaise," and "Stoned Cold Turkey Cape Flats Shacks."

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