Double Vision, digital art screen in Double Bay

Double vision

'Double Vision' is a digital public art project run by Woollahra Council. The digital screen, installed under the escalators to the Woollahra Library (Kiaora Place) in Double Bay features a range of varied video or other screen based artworks from different artists. Works displayed on the screen aims to engage and provide a point of difference to the public in this space.

ALLEGORIES

A is for Allegory. A picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden or complex meaning, typically a moral or political one. The allegories in this series use personification of abstract concepts to engage our attention through reflection, evocation and amusement.

Double Vision is currently screening works by Isabella Seraphima Rose, Anna Glynn and Aaron McGarry. These works will be on display until end of September 2025.

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Image credit: Twilight Homestead, 2024. By Isabella Seraphima Rose.

Artist: Isabella Seraphima Rose
Title: Twilight Homestead
Duration: 3:03 minutes

Isabella Seraphima Rose is a Sydney-based multimedia artist and graduate of Sydney College of the Arts. After spending numerous years overseas, she now draws inspiration from the nostalgic Australian landscapes she calls home and their place in our cultural mythology. In 2023, she received the Artereal Gallery Mentorship Award, and in 2024, she was a finalist for the Pro Hart Outback Prize.

Twilight Homestead follows the supernatural journey of a colonial Australian homestead as it travels through mystical dimensions. Out of the black-and-white pages of history, it is struck by lightning – an electric jolt that awakens it into vivid technicolour. As it travels through the gloom of twilight, we’re left to wonder: is it a house of peril, of enigma or of magical abilities?

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Image credit: Dwelling, 2024. By Anna Glynn.

Artist: Anna Glynn
Title: Dwelling
Duration: 9:20 minutes

Anna Glynn is a Dharawal based, award-winning Australian artist, investigating the complex relationships between humans, history, nature, land, place, and the physical and ephemeral. Recognised with numerous awards, her work is held in esteemed public and private collections.

Dwelling refers to a place of habitation and the idea of home as both the human home and the home for all native creatures and plants, also the process of dwelling upon something – to consider. Exploring the intersection of our human world and our surrounding landscape, Glynn reimagines structures, inserting wildlife into buildings, creating portals to the past and to the previous flora and fauna.

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Image credit: A is for Allegory Part 1, Nature, Poverty, Justice, 2024. By Aaron McGarry.

Artist: Aaron McGarry
Title: A is for Allegory Part 1: Nature, Poverty, Justice
Duration: 8.39 minutes

Aaron McGarry is a multidisciplinary Australian artist working across sculpture, video and costume. A is for Allegory – Part I is a digital video series that reinterprets allegorical traditions through a contemporary lens. Inspired by Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia (1555), the work explores philosophical and moral concepts such as Nature, Poverty and Justice using performance, soft sculpture and video as tools for drawing. McGarry’s layered tableaux challenge classical imagery, transforming historical symbols into urgent, modern reflections on identity, power and resistance. The work speaks to a continuing search for meaning, spirit and connection in a fractured world.

For more information on the public art project, or you would like to be involved, please email cultural@woollahra.nsw.gov.au or call 9391 7102.

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