2019
4th - 21st July
Gallery One: Tyler Payne - Kimspired
Opening June 4th from 6pm.
At the centre of #fitspiration advertising products is the idol-like form of Kim Kardashian. Everyday women consume #fitspo products with this idol-like form in mind. But the fetish-like presentation distracts from an important reality: the rigorous disciplines required to produce that body, the labour-time expended in the mastery of capacities. The Kardashian-body is a ‘full-time’role'. Kardashian’s body is both idolised and consumed through social media. She is a fetish object alongside the products she sells, or, more pointedly, she is the product, her flat tummy, her shapely waist represent the value of the commodity from which she has become indistinguishable. The interface of Instagram encourages a false analogy between the life of the celebrity and the everyday life, a comic likeness between the sacred and the profane. The inevitable failures articulate class differences, insofar as the non-celebrity bodies of everyday consumers enjoy none of the economic freedom (time) of social media celebrities.
The Canning Room: Nicki Brancatisano - In Some Way
Opening July 4th from 6pm.
In Some Way investigates Brancatisano's drawing practice in relation to attention, vision and perception. For her first Melbourne exhibition, Sydney-based Brancatisano brings together a take on drawing that holds the tension between the fixed and unfixed. In this, renders emerge - in some way, shape or form.
25th July - 11th August
Gallery One: Marina Mason - Untethered
Opening July 25th from 6pm.
Fragile or roughly hewn, Untethered is infused with stories from art history. This new body of work reflects an intuitive approach unfettered by rules and convention. Clay and paint come together, as do the equine and the feminine.
The Canning Room: RRAA - Storyboards
Opening July 25th from 6pm.
Storyboards consists of a series of ceramic trays presented with small sculptures of marvels that unlock visual play and poetry.
Untethered and Storyboards are exhibiting in conjunction with the 2019 Craft Cubed Festival.
15th August - 1st September
Gallery One: Catch
Becky Richards, Daegan Wells, Tyne Gordon, Felixe Laing, Jordan Davey-Emms, Greta van Oryen, Janie Bruce
Opening August 15th from 6pm.
A living body is more than matter. Muscles and bones, breath and heartbeat – all are animated by forces unseen. Chemical processes, the swooping rise of elation, the jagged-edged pressures of anxiety, the whine of electricity, the deep thrum of the earth.
What rhythms, what small processes might return us to our own limbs? How does one’s inner world shift, with the press of one body against another? And what uneasy content lurks beneath the polishing and modification of flesh?
Catch opens up the intangibilities of bodies; wrapping form around the invisible, the often unspoken. Featuring work from seven young New Zealand artists, covering diverse mediums, each seeking methods to catch, conquer, and celebrate that which can’t be grasped.
Image: Janie Bruce 'Tower', hand built ceramic, 2019.
The Canning Room: Emma Hamilton - Arctic Eye
Opening August 15th from 6pm.
Emma Hamilton’s series of photographic objects ‘Arctic Eye’ was taken during daily walks while on residency in Iceland. She has captured these moments via a digital camera, shot through the viewfinder of an analogue camera. These photographs now exist as a slither of a printed image. Hamilton makes visible the space of the viewfinder, using it as a lens through which to view a winter morning. Here the blink of an eye becomes the opening and closing of the camera shutter, the light of the morning changes incrementally through the landscape.