Haptic
Andréa Berthet (FR/CZ) + Lizzie Hall (AU)
Opening: Friday 17 April, 4-7pm
Exhibition: 17 April – 16 May 2026
Haptic
Andréa Berthet (FR/CZ) + Lizzie Hall (AU)
Opening: Friday 17 April, 4-7pm
Exhibition: 17 April – 16 May 2026
HAPTIC – the perception of the world via by touch is encapsulated in the works of Lizzie Hall and Andréa Berthet. The textured surfaces of Lizzie Hall’s paintings reveal the many layers that are built up over time to create her deeply symbolic works. Hall’s paintings reference the Greek myth of Charon ferrying the dead to the underworld. While her works emerge from personal references, they communicate universal experiences and stories that connect us all. The tactile materiality of her paintings resonates with the inky finger impressions imbedded in Andréa Berthet’s glass sculpture 'Unsaid' 2024. Berthet uses glass to explore how personal connections and touch can be expressed through objects. The many layers of self are exposed through her delicate, yet weighty sculptures that have been created by carving into many smooth layers of transparent and opaque glass.
Andréa Berthet, Ombre 2020
glass, 14 x 12 x 8.5 cm
Andréa Berthet, Ombre 2020 (detail)
Lizzie Hall, Boat for Charon (diptych 1) 2024
oxide, conte, oil on linen, diptych, each 116 x 98.5 cm
Lizzie Hall, Boat for Charon (diptych 1) 2024 (detail)
Andréa Berthet, Unsaid 2024
glass, black ink 11 x 30 cm
Andréa Berthet, Unsaid 2024 (detail)
Andréa Berthet, Unsaid 2024 (viewed from above)
Lizzie Hall, Boat for Charon (diptych 2) 2025
oxide, oil on linen; diptych, each 103 x 80 cm
Lizzie Hall, Boat for Charon (diptych 2) 2025 (detail)
Andréa Berthet, Strates 2020
glass, 11 x 10 x 7 cm
Andréa Berthet, Anyma 2024
glass, 21 x 17 x 5.3 cm
Lizzie Hall, Boat for Charon (diptych 4) 2026
oxide, oil on linen; diptych, each 122 x100 cm
Lizzie Hall, Boat for Charon (diptych 4) 2026 (detail)
Andréa Berthet (born 1994) is a French glass artist who graduated from Det Kongelige Akademi, Bornholm, in 2025. Prior to this, she obtained a design and artistic degree in glassblowing in France 2020, following a master’s degree in graphic design, 2017. Exhibitions include Andréa Berthet & Pavel Kopriva Jr., Crystal Valley Festival, City Hall, Liberec, Czech Republic, 2025; Un souffle de Bohême, Paris, 2025; UKURANT Unwrapped, 3daysofdesign; Copenhagen, 2024; and Bachelor exhibition, Glas Museet, Ebeltoft, 2024. Following working with glass studios across France, she is currently production manager at DECHEM Studio and glassblower at PRAGL in Prague.
Lizzie Hall (born 1978) is an Australian artist based in Braidwood, NSW, Australia, who graduated from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, in 2000. With a practice that incorporates drawing, painting and sculptural installation, recent solo exhibitions include The Lost Sea, Platform Artspace, Manuka, Canberra 2025; After the High Fell, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 2023; and New Paintings, Altenburg Gallery Braidwood, 2019. Group exhibitions include Horizons, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 2025; Elegy: Lizzie Hall and Kate Stevens, Civic Art Bureau, Canberra 2025; and the Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Prize, Sydney 2024. Hall is represented by Civic Art Bureau, Canberra.
Haptic with Andréa Berthet and Lizzie Hall at Polygon Artspace