This Is Nothing New

Exhibition at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery

from 3rd November - 24 December 2021

This Is Nothing New, is a continuation on from Gala’s highly successful series, I Have A Voice, containing the, now infamous, bra-cup face mask portraits. In this current exhibition she focuses on statistics from various Australian surveys exposing data on sexual harassment and how the general population feels towards women’s safety. By using the data directly from the source, she is inviting the viewer to interpret and answer the question, Are you angry yet? Through this exhibition she is opening a dialogue with the viewer and is attempting to raise awareness as to what goes on around them.

With a focus on photography, she has created a series of paste-ups, to portray figures representing these statistics. She has used the paste-up method, traditionally found in street art, and used highly accessible resources, such as A4 printer paper. By doing this she is aims to bring the situations that we experience everyday onto the blank walls of the gallery, to show that these issues are for everyone to engage in.

Data used in this exhibition is sourced from:

Fourth National Survey on Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces, AHRC 2018 and 2017 National Community Attitudes towards Violence against Women Survey (NCAS).