2019
5th - 22nd September
Gallery One: Carolyn Menzies - Morphogenesis
Opening Sept 5th from 6pm.
In Morphogenesis form emerges from the union of the industrial and the handmade. The title comes from the biological process that causes an organism to develop its shape – a process where form is emergent rather than given in advance. Witnessing the embryonic development of the fourth industrial revolution we are seeing automation change our future in a way we can’t fully understand from our current vantage point.
If steel stands as a signifier in this relentless industrialization, Menzies’ use undermines this legacy evoking a structural order that is haptic and organic. Tenderly crafting the abrasive steel wool and mesh into sculpture, Menzies creates a more mutable manmade world.
The Canning Room: Monique Barnett - Incomprehensibility of being a (w)hole
Opening Sept 5th from 6pm.
Incomprehensibility of being a (w)hole is a series of intimate paintings depicting brass wire figures in a fictional world. These paintings consider how the body and personhood connect to space and movement and the flow of the contemporary era. This new series of paintings are the outcome of Barnett’s research on water, its loss of ontological meaning, its use in luxury marketing of consumer products and as a powerful concept that materialises the conditions in which we live.
The current time could be characterised by its constant flux and state of change, like water, nothing is stationary. Barnett is interested in the space that individuals inhabit within this constant change and the parallel between the concept of water and the human condition. Individuals, like water, are in constant flux and states of transition, always the same but always different, drifting in the never ending stream of time.
The physical elements of water, its depth, surface and reflectivity are used in the paintings as a tool to straddle tension between surface and depth in the lexicon of figurative painting.
26th September - 13th October
No Exit
Chris Hamnett, Corinna Berndt, Rachel Ang, Chloe Rose Taylor, Zhonghao Chen, Gaby Montejo, Ross Vaughan,
Pip Ryan, Emily Galicek and Megan Archer.
Opening Sept 26th from 6pm.
In this group exhibition curated by Tinning Street Presents, ten artists come together to explore the absurd. From personal narratives through to piles of food, No Exit explores how the absurd can be found between humour, horror, dreams and the extreme.
Delightfully funny and erring on taboo, No Exit invites you to look, and laugh, at ourselves and the wider world.
Image: 'Desert Moon' by Megan Archer. Collage, 360 x 395mm, 2018.
17th October - 3rd November
Gallery One: Vanessa Howells, Garth Howells, Lina Buck - inACTION
Opening Oct 17th from 6pm.
In inACTION Garth Howells, Lina Buck and Vanessa Howells reflect on transitional, reassembled and misremembered states. The exhibition examines impermanence through the transformation of material, memory and artefact. The works draw attention to the importance of process and assemblage in the creation of meaning by resisting prioritised points of view or moments in time.
Image: Vanessa Howells, 'Woman In Another Landscape, A modern history of Art',
34.5 cm x 43 cm Pigment print on Cotton Rag.
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The Canning Room: JB Knibbs - Finding Pieces of Home
Opening Oct 17th from 6pm.
JB Knibbs presents Finding Pieces of Home, an exhibition of photographs of reconstructed domestic objects. These works take familiar household objects and place them out of context, using lighting, scale and composition to explore feelings of nostalgia, unease and isolation.