Est. 2018 - ARTIST STUDIOS + GALLERY SPACE
Current Exhibition -
28th March - 27th April 2024
Main Gallery
HOME INSPECTION
by Max Ballard
After setting out to create a body of work exploring the theme of connection to particular places, I decided to narrow my focus to a single location, the sharehouse in which I have lived and worked for the past two years. Restricted only to paintings of my house, I set myself the challenge of seeing this very familiar setting through a new lens, constantly seeking out interesting compositions within the cupboards, walls, doorways, couches and general clutter.
Each painting has been created with two somewhat contradictory goals in mind. First, portraying my relationship with the scene, the familiarity, memories and homeliness that I connect with these settings. Painting each scene motionless and empty of inhabitants, I invite the viewer to draw connections to familiar places in their own lives and to create their own narratives within the work. The second goal of mine is to look beyond any meaning or ordinariness of my subjects and regard them only as a combination of shapes, lines and textures that I can use to create interesting compositions. While seemingly contradictory, these goals make up two sides of my desire to create work that draws attention to the beauty and interest within the ordinary and the everyday, the things we look at thousands of times without giving them much thought.
Current Exhibition
28th March - 27th April 2024
Foyer
‘Sometimes you must make your own rainbows’ (woven paper 2)
by Jessie Lumb
Between 2018 and 2020 I lived in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, a challenging city that meant my typical ways of being in and creating work in public spaces was no longer an option. In my early days there I felt trapped by these circumstances - I was moved from one secure compound to another with a guard, without freedom to roam off track. I leant into these difficulties in the best way I knew how and began connecting with local artists and using colourful materials to brighten up my life. I eventually learnt how to flat weave with pandanas, a traditional technique used throughout the Pacific region to create mats to sit and sleep on. I adapted this skill to paper and began using it as a form of drawing to create abstract colourful works, filling my life with rainbows even when I couldn’t see any. Sometimes you must make your own rainbows (woven paper2) is a larger version of one of these early experiments.
We acknowledge the Kaurna people as the traditional owners of the land upon which we work.
We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded, and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.