Creative Cuts - Kissing the cobra

A new exhibition has arrived in Maleny entitled Kissing the Cobra. Come and see 24 new paintings by Jessica Ainsworth to that seek to express such topics as love and fear, death and renewal, humour and pathos. Jessica explores the mystery of things both serious and absurd. She asks such questions as…“Who cleaned up after the Last Supper?” “What if Adam ate the apple instead of Eve?”“What to do when home alone?” “Is snakes and ladders really just a board game?”

Inspired by a 1935 documentary filmed in Burma of a woman whose task it was to kiss a King Cobra on the mouth three times in order for there to be more male babies to be born in her village, Jessica has worked for a year, questioning, exploring and painting.

So expect the unexpected, as Jessica’s latest enthralling exhibition promises to be one full of surprises, from November 16 – 19, 3-7pm at The Zone Gallery, 89 McCarthy Rd, Maleny. For more information, visit: thezonegallery.com.au