This publication coincides with the exhibition Gillian Collyer, Marla Hlady, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky held at the Owens Art Gallery from 16 January to 29 February 2004.

The work of all four artists relates directly to a variety of banal routines, habits that reinforce our everyday lives and perhaps give us the comforting illusion of purpose. And yet, within each of their distinct practices the same comfortable repetition also finds itself transformed, as it occasionally does in life, through some unexpected event, contingency, or coincident, some bump in the road or slip of the hand.

Essay by Emily Falvey