18 May – 4 June
Opens 18 May 6-8pm
Untitled (In Silvery Grey)
Jasmine Fisher
My work deals with the psychological condition, encompassing feelings of anxiety, neurosis, tension and dysfunction. It is commonly based around the domestic setting with visual cues relating to memory and nostalgia.
There are suggestions of longing and repression, with allusions towards the artifice of the display home and its associations with unrequited desire and false aspirations.
The work symbolises the idea of the home as a beautified sanctuary as well as a source of anxiety via entrapment.
My practice involves minimalist sculptural works and ready-made installations, extending to video and photography.
18 May – 4 June
Opens 18 May 6-8pm
Panopticon
Marita Lillie
As surveillance, spectatorship, reality TV and ‘Facebook’ increasingly invade our space, restrictions as a photographer become more questioned and uncertain.
The Panopticon Project is an installation work that consists of hidden camera devices that capture video surveillance within the gallery space. Still images are created from the footage and are then projected on the night screen the following month. The exhibition highlights the restraints and problematic nature of photography today. What is allowed and what isn’t? What and whom can be photographed? Indeed, how frequently are we photographed without our knowledge? This project explores various interpretations of surveillance while questioning the ethics and legalities of this ever-expanding phenomenon.
18 May – 4 June – Project Space
8 June – 25 June – Night Screen
18 May – 4 June
Opens 18 May 6-8pm
Food Porn Nightly
Fiona Blandford
Amidst the explosion of the cuisine culture, a sub culture has formed with a language that blurs the lines between voyeurism and the image of food into Food Porn. Food Blogs such as, Food Voyeur and Food Gawker are just a few networks obsessed with the image of food. Physical oral satisfaction is not crucial to the experience. The dripping syrupy fresh Strawberry reduction and silky Ginger infused Mascarpone are to die for, ‘Click, Drool, Repeat’. So close and immersed in the pores of the food, it is felt in private spaces and revealed in flowing juices.
18 May – 4 June
Opens 18 May 6-8pm
String Strung Out
Liang Xia Luscombe
String Strung Out presents a body of work that playfully stretches the concept of painting across into three-dimensional assemblage. Through the incorporation of cast and prefabricated objects that lean, balance and teeter on the edge of the canvas Luscombe develops a language that integrates provisional sculpture with painting. Luscombe’s new body of sculptural pieces takes its cues from Anthony Caro’s 1966-1969 Table Pieces in which were made to sit on the edges of tables. Luscombe’s work will also use this same tension of the edge as a means to negotiate gravity and balance.
18 May- 4 June
Opens Wednesday 18 May 6-8pm
Exhausting Objects: 01
Kasia Lynch
Sporting equipment offers users the means to self regulate and control the body. Variables such as weight, resistance, speed, time and energy expenditure are constantly monitored and recorded with the aim of maximizing the end result.
Exhausting Objects: 01 aims to illuminate the physical and social geography of the gymnasium as a field of unique creative potential. Transforming the gallery into a quasi-gymnasium, this project looks for new means of exchange between bodies, objects and space that are motivated by creativity, indeterminacy and transformative potential.
