Lou Hubbard: Grill felt lamb

19 September - 25 October 2025

Overview

Sarah Scout Presents is delighted to present Grill felt lamb, a major solo exhibition of sculptures, drawings and objects by Lou Hubbard.

Hubbard has long made artworks about formal and linguistic associations that link to her experiences of growing up in Brisbane – things such as empty swimming pools, math's operations, eye operations, the horse that she was given at the age of eleven. Grill felt lamb continues this vein and follows her recent solo project Pleasure First at Gertrude Contemporary. The horse is most particularly present, as well as echoes of the horse. However, this exhibition connects more explicitly with Hubbard’s early years, with the inclusion of work she made as a very young artist and even a portrait of the artist aged five, skilfully drawn by her older brother.

The numerous small objects and two-dimensional works operate as something of a devotional or votive wall in the gallery, while the larger sculptures—though pushed and pulled into submission by the artist—assertively announce their presence.

A visceral language and a physical wrangling of site, materials and forms that point to the way out, this way out, exits and absences.

Processes, procedures, processions of operatives and operations—and time.

Around 16 I read these words in a poem: “the space between the door and the floor”. This is how I know what I know, of the place where events which have shifted the course of my life are seen, felt and whispered.

The gap between the door and the floor is also the place I am from: The Gap, between Waterworks and Payne, under the TV towers.

Beckett is having his cigarette on a park bench facing his mother’s hospital window. He sees the blind drawn and knows her time has come.