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
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
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
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