‘Prickly’ is a captivating solo exhibition by Regina Hyland, featuring a series of paintings and mixed media artworks exploring the artist’s aesthetic appreciation of the Prickly Pear plant.  

Delving into a world of thorns, vibrant hues and history, this collection invites viewers to embrace the paradoxical beauty of this introduced species that had invasively spread across Queensland and NSW by the early 1920s.  

The vibrant colours, edgy lines, and contrasting shapes of ‘Prickly’ will transport audiences into a surreal botanical realm where the Prickly Pear takes centre stage. 

Taunted Boundaries is a body of work that investigates the edge of reoccurring concepts from my art practice.

These concepts are mortality, beauty, decay, motherhood, and my direct environment. Furthermore, Modernist artist Hannah Hoch noted that humans are obsessed with categorising and making sure everything fits within a boundary.

However, what happens beyond the boundary?

This is where I like to examine; my art plays between alive and dead, beauty and ugliness, realism and abstraction, contained and uncontained. Each work also serves as a self-portrait and memento-mori.

To create this body of work, I have utilised digital technologies, and old and new printmaking methods.