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![Long live the new flesh: Lisa McCleary’s sci-fi surfaces](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/thumbnail_Naofa_Sacred_2018_22.5-x-13_oil-on-aluminum-1140x666.jpg)
Lisa McCleary discusses her upcoming solos show at Gallery MC, eroticism, surfaces, sci-fi and insane amounts of hard work…
![New Work Friday #205](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Lace-577-plastic-bags-555x375.jpeg)
“Using a science fiction lens, I explore possible futuristic landscapes and creatures inhabiting contaminated coastal ecosystems.New forms of hybrid flora and fauna emerge; mutated corals that are half scleractinian, half plastic, dystopian creatures that remind us of our indifference now and for hundreds of years into the future…”
![New Work Friday #200](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Image2_GBates_HouseProtectionAmulets-555x375.jpg)
Gab Bates, ‘Developer Catcher’ (based on a traditional Voodoo ‘Devil Catcher’), W65cmxD65cmxH80cm, foraged & anointed sticks, bones, beads, coins, Inner West soil, cocain and the spittle of an angry young female artist at a council meeting. Gab Bates, ‘House Protection
![Sculpture 2013](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
An art school lecturer once remarked to me that the problem with sculpture is that it takes up a lot of room.