Egg & Dart

Melbourne Art Fair 2026 - Hannah Barclay, Aaron Fell-Fracasso, Erin Mison

Wanton on the breeze

Erin Mison

Wanton on the breeze, 2026 Framed: 35.8 x 120.7 cm Hand tufted wool yarn on cotton monks cloth, framed AUD 4,000

"The Right to Bathe" is a territorial claim to the radical simplicity of a private moment. Inspired by the myth of Diana and Actaeon, these works move beyond the voyeuristic wreckage of antiquity to assert a state of being that requires no outside witness.
Historically, the simplicity of the bath is rarely permitted to remain simple once observed. The moment a foreign eye enters the glade, the act is burdened with projection: a superimposed narrative of sex and expectation. These works refuse that weight. Rendered in textile—a medium transforming domestic silence into a haptic monument—the series insists on the unromanticized reality of intimacy and care.