Abstract nominee

A project about the invariable shininess of consumer culture and the unreliable nature of language in the modern world. About breaking the ridgid bounds of mass produced necessity to rediscover the dream of unexpected freedom in the space between understanding and incoherence. A space where being discombobulated can be the beginning of enlightenment.

Born Melbourne 1962. In 1992 he was a finalist in the Felix H Mann Memorial Prize at the National Gallery of Victoria and his work was acquired as part of the Hugh Williamson bequest for inclusion in “Sites of the Imagination”. In 1996 his “Shades” project was included in “The Object of Existence” at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) and subsequently in Chris McAuliffe's book "Art and Suburbia" (Craftsman House,1996). In November 2017 his first photobook "The Older Industrials Parks near Newport, Victoria" was published through The Velvet Cell. Bill Lane's work explores the tension between the individual and consumer culture and the fine line between document and metaphor.