24th March - 29th of April, 2023
Studio Takeover
Rodney Gardner
First Space
My style is spontaneous and unplanned which suits this exhibition. I am very excited to showcase my skills and be a part of this exhibition and share my work with you all.
I am an emerging Launceston Aboriginal artist who enjoys many areas of painting, my main focus is watercolour and charcoal. I am self taught and enjoy studying and learning online. Drawing and sketching every day is a passion and I enjoy learning and creating. I want to use my skills and love of art to represent my community.
As a proud Aboriginal man I believe I have been get been given a gift and want to use this gift to draw and paint as it helps me express my story of the community and what it means to me to be a aboriginal man in today’s society. I sell my works regularly and sell works overseas and locally. I have works in the state collection including Allport Gallery in Hobart and The Tasmanian museum art gallery.
I have won the Vida Brown award and have been Tasmanian Aboriginal artist of the year. I teach watercolour classes regularly at the Brisbane Street Art studio and work with the TAC teaching watercolour workshops to the community.
every object both separate and connected
Nick Ashwood
Inner Space
every object both separate and connected is staged as a questioning of the hierarchies embedded within euro-centric music. How they serve as a form of colonialism and forced hearing, and by how moving away from these ranked forms we can begin to create decentralised sounds and alternate ways of listening.
Sounds have an innate ability to create spaces of empathy; the central tool in understanding ourselves, and more importantly, others. It allows us to commune with differing belief systems, decision-making, desires, and behaviours.
The act of sound creation is inherently an act of inclusion and exclusion. It is the choosing of what reality is presented, and what reality is excluded.
The show yearns to devalue high culture by presenting an alternative, but it also creates space for the audience to unpack their own perceptions of consuming and creating sounds. Here, I present one of the unending possibilities of sonic realities.
Divided magnetisms - whole heartedly collapsing.
A process of imbrication.
Jemima Lucas.
Back Space
If matter can never be subtracted from this earth - how is it sustained? In what form is the trace and transfer of this energy transformed? How does great force extracted from the dynamic weight of a body, expel and graft onto allied materials/spaces?
Within this work - body disappears, objects disappear, gestures disappear, and assemblages at large change form. Whilst holding the sentiment that no amount of mass or energy dispels, but merely transmutes and recycles - echoes of this impetus can be felt on a molecular level, extending beyond the parameters of the gallery. Past the barriers of the performers’ and materials’ own epidermis. Manifesting in the most unlikely combustions and ruinations.
This in turn tightens the space of relations between all materials and bodies within the space, whilst simultaneously suggesting the propensity for vestiges to be felt beyond the site.
Performances by Nikki Tarling and Mason Kelly took place on opening night. Sound by Noah Riseley.