August Exhibitions
4 – 19 August 2017
Opening Friday 4 August 6-8pm
Artist Talks Saturday 19 August 3-5pm
10 Junction street Marrickville
6 minutes easy walk aong Schwebel Street from Marrickville Station
GALLERY ONE
Landscaping
Amala Groom
Kim Mahood
Nicole Monks
Katya Petetskaya
Douglas Schofield
Peter Sharp
Kristel Smits
Landscaping brings together the work of seven artists: Amala Groom, Kim Mahood, Nicole Monks, Katya Petetskaya, Douglas Schofield, Peter Sharp and Kristel Smits. Normally understood as a process whereby land is physically modified according to an aesthetic schema, landscaping, in this exhibition, becomes a way of seeing, being and responding. The aim is to bring a variety of perspectives into a dialogue, whether they are driven by formal considerations and/or political and cultural imperatives.
GALLERY TWO
Marie McMahon
Weathered
Perforated colour-forms and flow formations. Recent paintings.
These experiments with organic form and colour come from interactions with some of the natural phenomena at Cape Banks and Cruwee Cove in Botany Bay, from fungus growing in the bush to the contents of rockpools and the perforations created by the weathering of rocks.
THE CRANNY
Jodi Woodward
Matter(ed) Memory
“Our present is the materiality of our life, it is unique for each moment of duration.” (Bergson, H. 1911)
The physicality and alchemy of this drawing investigation, uses steel and paper to contest the delicate and volatile relationship between the two mediums. Drawn with plasma and molten ash this performative record evidences time, chance and endurance, challenging notions of survival and wholeness.
DEEP SPACE
Rosie Thomas
What am I doing? Why are you here?
Time is problematic. It is a measurement of distance. A non-solid that fills a space. What am I doing? Why are you here? proposes a disorientation of ones self in a non-space. Here the artist intersects the real and the invented and invites her audience to be actively self-reflexive. The artist negotiates the moments of failure associated an unsustainable and only partially accessible poetic time-associated materiality.
Images from top to bottom: Amala Groom, Portrait of a Woman, 2015, Epsom pigment print on Ilford Gallerie gloss 310gsm, ed 1/10 + 1AP. Image: Liz Warning; Marie McMahon, Perforated Polychrome #2, 2017. Photo Warren Mackriss, Hi Res Digital Imaging; Jodi Woodward, Plate 1 (detail), 5mm mild steel and ink, 30 x 60cm, Image by Eliza McInnes; and Rosie Thomas, What am I doing? (detail) Why are you here? 2017, Image courtesy of the artist.
AirSpace Projects 2014-2017 