10/05/24 - 15/06/24
FIRST SPACE
Weaving A Waiata
Weaving a Waiata (Echoes) is an assemblage of my own dreams, streams (of consciousness and subconciousness) and memories, utilizing found and familial objects and materials that explore contemporary connection to culture from a queer, neurodiverse, First Nations lens.
Play, Pause, Perform Piles Of Personal Polaroids Tiaki (To Take Care Of) Hollowed Hands Holding On Weaving Tattered, Torn Underwear Worn By Ex Lovers Time and Space, People and Place Nails, Screws & Tape Preserving, Protecting Red Lips, Red Hearts Echoes, Vibrations An Open Bottle Of Cologne & Repurposed Gin Bottles The Future Feels Familiar.
INNER SPACE
what grows at the water's edge?
Georgia Hayward
what grows at the water's edge? is a participatory installation that explores how we can build and mobilise solidarity practices. Inspired by Country, the work imagines the braided river structures across Mardigan Country and surrounding waterways of so-called Australia, as a framework community building through storytelling, conversation and social practice. The work reframes the gallery space to offer forward a commons - inviting us to sit with each other, hold weight in our togetherness and critically understand our positioning both geographically and socially amongst the ongoing genocide in Palestine and rising Indigenous deaths in custody. 'what grows at the water's edge?' asks us to reimagine what futures are possible through collaborative action and shared liberation.
BACK SPACE
Softening Squares
Isaac Williams
Beginning as an architectural exploration in embracing nature’s forms, Softening Squares navigates the balance and intersection of the seemingly paradoxical but ultimately linked relationship between the natural and the human made. An early established visual language/framework underpins these explorations. Circle = Natural Interconnected Systems. Square = Modern Isolated Systems. Form, geometry, symbol and waste material as artefact, are used to offer a snapshot of current nature/human disharmony, as well as presenting conceptual examples aspiring for a harmonious synthesis.
THE SPACE
Photos + Collages
Louis Sauer
Curated by Lex Palmer Bull
My photographic and collage work reflects expression through abstract-textural styles. It aims to capture the complexity and uncertainties of reality by transforming ordinary objects into extraordinary representations to resonate with viewers on a visceral level.
I explore life's tensions, complexities and the unstable nature of existence to express my reality and to find meaning and authenticity in the midst of life's challenges.
I experience reality as unawareness, then struggle, confusion, exasperation, a gleaning, understanding, the peace of being and nothingness. These are not fixed entities but something I construct through experience and thought.