Threshold, 2025
Solo exhibition at Woollahra Gallery, Sydney , 9 April - 4 May 2025
“I have often wondered if the houses that we have lived in remember any of us - if there might be some small molecular sediment of self that has lodged in the spaces between floorboards. Each house is, in its way, a palimpsest- an accumulation of movements through rooms, up and down stairs, along corridors, a hollowing out of space by bodies no longer there.”
Threshold responds to the history of Woollahra Gallery, formerly owned by the Moulder Family (1913-1919) and likely named after the patron saint of Ireland, St. Brigid. Lemoh was drawn to the historical contrasts between the spacious upstairs living quarters of the family and the ‘grim’ downstairs spaces occupied by the servants. Of particular interest is the largely undocumented experience of the women, who played a vital role in maintaining the home. The works in this exhibition include casts of the artist’s body and elements of the building. Symbols such as staircases and cast-glass oranges (made using the pâte de verre technique) offer a symbolic reimagining of power dynamics, focusing on gender and class divides.
Link to full catalogue essay ‘Ripples in Sandstone’ by Macushla Robinson.
Threshold, 2024, plaster and pate de verre glass.
Photography: Damien Geary
‘On the edge of each step’, 2025, sandstone, steel, bronze
Photography: Jessica Maurer
‘St Brigid’, 2025, cast brass
Photography: Jessica Maurer
Installation view
Photography: Jessica Maurer
Installation view
Photography: Jessica Maurer