GALLERY TWO AND THE CRANNY
3-18 November 2017
The T-E-A-R Collective
Place of all return
Opening Event: Friday 3 November 6-8pm
Artist Talks: Saturday 18 November 3-5pm
Artists: Ben Adams, Carlos Agamaz, Chi Chi Menendez, Clara Chung, Danny Giles, Erin Schloeffel, Gabbi Lancaster, Giorgia De Biasi, Karolina Partyka, Marlaina Read, Michael Lai, Mija Healey, Moonhee Kim, Paula S Y Ngu, Patrick Smith, Rosanna Goslett-King
Facilitated by Hayden Fowler
Place of all return is an exhibition that explores socio-spiritual and environmental themes. It comes out of an intensive seven-day experimental contemporary art lab and residency for emerging and early career artists from Australia and overseas – including artists from Indigenous, queer and regional backgrounds – at Smith’s Lake on the Central Coast in July 2017. The project was facilitated by artist Hayden Fowler.
At the beginning of the residency the artists heard Rob Yettica from the Forster Local Aboriginal Land Council, talk about Smith’s Lake as a transitional space. Artists were encouraged to reflect on feelings, thoughts, self, the past and the natural surroundings and, ‘just let it go out over the water.’
Works in the exhibition draw upon diverse disciplines. They embrace art, science and design and examine the shifting contemporary relationships between humanity and the natural world as well as the historical and cultural influences shaping this engagement, including local Indigenous history and contemporary cultural influences.
The collective’s broad experimental approach to contemporary art making – photography, sound, installation, performance, sculpture and video – invites the audience to consider effective and experimental approaches to working in, with and from Smith’s Lake.
Taking the lake and its surroundings as a site of departure, Place of all return explores personal, emotional, spiritual and cultural questions referencing human-environment exchange, experimental futures, spatiality, ritual, loss, grief, transition and transformation.
List of Works
Ben Adams
Consent to Destroy: Part 3, 2017, vacuum seal bags, found objects, string, dimensions variable.
POA
Carlos Agamez
2017, Ladder to nowhere, collected wood, performance and site specific installation, dimensions variable
POA
Clara Chung
Clara Chung, Untitled I (studies between the lines), 2017, inkjet print,131 x 68cm. $450
Untitled II (studies between the lines), 2017, inkjet print, 40 x 69cm
$270
Giorgia De Biasi
Giant Steps (above), 2017, oil bar, chalk, pastel, on cotton rag, 55 x 73cm
$600
Heuristic (Blue algorithm) (below), 2017, oil bar, charcoal, pastel, on cotton rag, 55 x 73cm
$440
Danny Giles
Safe place for bees, 2017, home grown gourds, bamboo, beeswax, shellac, fabric, glue, dimensions variable.
$250 per bee habitat
Rosanna Goslett-King
Nest, 2017, video installation, 6min
POA
Mija Healey
2017, single channel video, 4min 56sec (looped)
POA
Moonhee Kim
Square Flowers #1 – #9, 2017, organic material on perspex, mixed media, each work 60 x 60cm.
$600 each
Michael Lai
Are We There Yet?, 2017, interactive video, organic material and resin on perspex, 95 x 105cm
POA
Chi Chi Menendez
Duelo, 2017, Giclée Fine Art Print on textured cotton rag paper, 76 x 120cm (Framed) Edition 1/5.
POA
Paula S Y Ngu
Midden I-001, 2017, installation, glass bottles, gesso, dimensions variable.
NFS
Untitled, 2017, watercolour and pencil on cotton paper, 56 x 76cm
NFS
Gabbi Lancaster
Opening into a new day, 2017, acrylic paint on canvas, 112 x 183cm.
$3800
Karolina Partyka
Nature Calls (Mayers Flats, Myall Lakes National Park, NSW, Australia), 2017, framed archival inkjet print, Posca pen, live off-site solar powered phone installation. Unique state, 59.4 x 84.1cm.
$700 for framed print
(This project has been supported by Arc @ UNSW Ltd under their 2017 Art & Design Grants scheme)
Marlaina Read
Drift, 2017, foraged reeds, Icelandic wool, driftwood, installation documentation, dimensions variable
Erin Schloeffel
2017, Untitled, tin, wood, sculpture and sound installation, dimensions variable https://vimeo.com/225942281
Papillon (Patrick Smith)
Untitled (Doon Doon Creek), 2017, photograph, 70 x 50cm.
POA
AirSpace Projects 2014-2017 