Ara Dolatian, Terrains Seventh Gallery; 31 March – 15 April Exhibition Essay There are reasons for why we like to say that an idea is planted like a seed, or that concepts germinate in our mind, or that an ideology takes root in a society. The fields of our cultural endeavours are the fertile grounds of natural inclinations. While … Continue reading
THE AGENCY OF THINGS Sarah Contos, Chris Dolman, Betra Fraval, Michaela Gleave, Justin Hinder, Zoe Kirkwood, Sam Leach, Melanie Upton, Mark Whalen @ Anna Pappas Gallery, 19 February to 26 March, 2016 The artworks in the agency of things have produced their own exhibition. They are not simply outcomes of creativity – the material expression … Continue reading
Stanislava Pinchuk, Surface to Air Karen Woodbury Gallery; 2 September – 3 October The fabric of our existence is a material emptiness. An emptiness more rich and complex than all the heavy metals, tectonic plates and suns of our universe. Even more than cerebral cortices. Let us meditate on a cloud momentarily. Fluffy, billowing and ephemeral. A consequence … Continue reading
Robbie Rowlands, ‘The fountain be still’ Drawing Room, Rio Vista House – Mildura Arts Centre; 19 September to 10 November, 2013 Life is not lived in linear sequence but in harmonic echoes and repeated refrains. Reaching across the expanse of time and place, our memories mingle ephemeral recollections with material presence. The objects that surround … Continue reading
‘Painting/Sculpture/Floor work/Wall work’, curated by Renee Cosgrave Stockroom Gallery, May 2013 Colour compositions as musical notation. Shapes formed into phrases for complex prose. Patterns beating out rhythms of discord and melody in equal measure. For painting / sculpture / floor work / wall work Renee Cosgrave has curated an orchestral ensemble of visual harmonies and … Continue reading
Laura Woodward, ‘Introverted’ Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne; 31 January to 9 February, 2013 Nothing exists in isolation. Information flows, synaptic nerves fire and selfish genes hitch rides inside soft machines of their own invention. The fractal rhythms of life loop in echoed reflections. Laura Woodward engineers systems, balancing technical material precision with conceptual counterweights. Motion … Continue reading
Michael Needham, Between the Object and the Shadow Daine Singer Gallery, August – September 2012 A sweet and beautiful sadness. The velvet cloak of memory and loss falling at the speed of life. A palpable gravitas, a force of weight in dense silence, tugging gently on my organs. These are the first contemplations of my … Continue reading
dark matter_dark energy, Michael Needham, Sally Blenheim, Adam John Cullen, Tristan Jalleh, Jacques Soddell, Nicholas Ives Stockroom Gallery, July 2012 the materiality of emptiness if i mention Einstein will you stop reading this? will it put you off? well, frankly, it’s too late for that because there he is, sitting fourth in line of the … Continue reading
Rhythm and Pulse, Rhett d’Costa, Bryan Spier, Liang Luscombe, Renee Cosgrave, Troy Christmass Stockroom Gallery, April 2012 The following document was an accompanying text to an exhibition I curated at Stockroom Gallery. It works best in print, however, you can access it as a pdf, which will open in your browser when you click on … Continue reading
Tara Gilbee, You Must Remember This Stockroom Gallery, November 2011 Inscribed by time, marked by history and floating in a blackened void of implied vastness, Tara Gilbee sets before us a collection of gathered artefacts. And not unlike icons cast up on the walls for us to decipher in an exchange of give and take, … Continue reading
the subMachine 