Curated by Alyce Neal, Thea Jones, Grace Wood
The List
30
March 2017
30
Mar
2017
14
Apr 2017
7UP
The List
Curated by Alyce Neal, Thea Jones, Grace Wood
30
March 2017
30
March
2017
14
April 2017
7UP
ARTISTS:Benjamin Baker, Rosie Isaac, Lauren Dunn, Katie West The List features new and recent work by Benjamin Baker, Lauren Dunn, Rosie Isaac and Katie West, and investigates the constructed systems our bodies operate in—language, images, space and history. In presenting distinctly different practices that include performance, installation, painting and sculpture, The List seeks to embody the diversity of art-making practices and highlight the critical concerns shaping contemporary art. The List sees artists extend beyond the confines of the gallery space, offering a self-critique of the designated gallery and art object, and the capacity of the artist-run platform in the contemporary art ecology. The exhibition will be complemented by a series of public programs, including artist talks and readings. Benjamin Baker is interested the nuances of contact. It is somewhere to collapse the macro and to nurture the micro. An attempted inward reflection and a quiet space, allocated for ideas colliding through the platform of painting. I acknowledge the seed and present the vessel. Benjamin Baker is a multidisciplinary artist practising and sleeping in Melbourne. They are currently finishing their BFA in painting at The VCA.
ARTISTS:Benjamin Baker, Rosie Isaac, Lauren Dunn, Katie West The List features new and recent work by Benjamin Baker, Lauren Dunn, Rosie Isaac and Katie West, and investigates the constructed systems our bodies operate in—language, images, space and history. In presenting distinctly different practices that include performance, installation, painting and sculpture, The List seeks to embody the diversity of art-making practices and highlight the critical concerns shaping contemporary art. The List sees artists extend beyond the confines of the gallery space, offering a self-critique of the designated gallery and art object, and the capacity of the artist-run platform in the contemporary art ecology. The exhibition will be complemented by a series of public programs, including artist talks and readings. Benjamin Baker is interested the nuances of contact. It is somewhere to collapse the macro and to nurture the micro. An attempted inward reflection and a quiet space, allocated for ideas colliding through the platform of painting. I acknowledge the seed and present the vessel. Benjamin Baker is a multidisciplinary artist practising and sleeping in Melbourne. They are currently finishing their BFA in painting at The VCA.
Thea Jones
Thea Jones is an artist with a background in philosophy, living and working in Naarm Melbourne on the unceded sovereign land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. She is broadly interested in post-structuralism and theories of language, particularly through a feminist lens. She often utilises textiles and traditional craft techniques to explore these themes.
Grace Wood
Grace Wood is an artist from Melbourne, Australia. In 2014, she graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours). She has exhibited extensively in Australia. Wood primarily creates collage-based installations. Her work frequently dissects and comments on the internet archive, elitism in art history, and conventional displays of contemporary photography.
Benjamin Baker
I nurture a sustainable practice that is informed by material investigations, bodily outcomes and emotional experiences. I attempt to translate these ephemeral self-reflections into imagery through painting in an expanded field and sculptural installation. Swaying and navigating between ecologies of tenderness, queer melancholy and stomach butterflies, I dance alongside imagined vibrant touches and strokes of anticipation.
Lauren Dunn
I am an artist of Middle Eastern and European descent, born on Giabal land in southern Queensland and based in Narrm, Melbourne. I mostly work with photography but also use other materials when necessary as a means of twisting the codes and conventions of our relationship to images. I believe mainstream popular images are shaping our behaviours more than ever. I work to unpack and decode these images to make sense of culture and the power structures shaping shared desires.
Katie West
Katie West is an artist and Yindjibarndi woman based in Noongar Ballardong country, working in installation, textiles and social practice. The process and notion of naturally dyeing fabric underpin her practice –the rhythm of walking, gathering, bundling, boiling up water and infusing materials with plant matter. Using found and naturally dyed textiles, video, and sound, Katie creates installations, textile pieces, and happenings that invite attention to the many ways we weave our stories, places, histories, and futures.Katie studied visual art at Edith Cowan University (2009) and Sociology at Murdoch University (2013). In 2017 Katie completed a Master of Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, graduating as the recipient of the Dominik Mersch Gallery Award and the Falls Creek Resort Indigenous Award.Katie has presented solo exhibitions at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville and West Space, Melbourne for Next Wave Festival 2016, and participated in group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne and Shimmer, Rotterdam.In 2022, Katie was a John Stringer Prize finalist and invited to be part of Primavera, the annual showcase of a select group of young Australian artists, held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.