About Face (2026)

Rogue Pop-up Gallery
4 – 29 March, 2026

About Face is a two-room exhibition featuring two bodies of Wart’s work: Heads and Tales (2026) and Facing It (2026).

Ann Finegan describes About Face:

“[Wart’s] motto is: ‘broken brains, good heart.’

“Laid out across two rooms, this exhibition is organised in parallel zones. Heads and Tails is a series of paintings comprised of five diptychs: three sets of birds and two of animals… Wart presents a selection of endangered species: the yellow-green Orange Bellied Parrot, the yellow-splashed Regent Honey-Eater, and the Far Eastern Curlew… Each of the birds and animals has been cut in half; their upper and lower torsos separately framed. Tragically, mating practices have been brutally disrupted, with birds and animals left stranded, calling forlornly for their ‘other half’…

“The Second Room [Facing It] is attuned to human fragility and staged as a journey into mental health, with a particular emphasis of the physical effects of powerful psych drugs. Getting the shakes and other unpleasant adverse effects of the medications can be overwhelming.”

Read Ann Finegan’s full About Face catalogue essay, plus her Q & A with Wart here.