Gallery Saint Phalle and Lake Mungo

Paul Mason: Lake Mungo, in Gallery Saint Phalle

In the back room of the Red Wheelbarrow on Lygon Street, Catherine has set up a beautiful little gallery. It is called Gallery Saint Phalle. They moved the bookshelves out and into Paul's shop, making the front room a kind of booklovers’ maze. You can stand there and not know who is on the other side. On a winter’s day like today, the lamp from his desk and the heater cast a dim warm light.


The back room however is the complete opposite: lightness.

On the shortest day of the year, Catherine opened “Solstice”, an exhibition of drawings by Paul Mason. They are perfect for the Gallery: gray lead drawings on white paper that defy dimension and create space through lines. One of them documents an epiphany that the artist had in a particular place. And as I had a couple of weeks’ break coming up, it gave me a destination: Lake Mungo.