Project: STRAND DRAWINGS, ENTANGLEMENT and the INTERIM ECOLOGY
Medium: fibreglass thread, mixed media.
Location: Sydney, AUS
Date: 2019/21
Details: Investigating material agency in the expanded field of drawing; interventions with the built environment; theories of entanglement within the shifting states of temporal ecologies. Referenced are the works of sculptor and philosopher LEE UFAN.
Ideas are influenced by writings in contemporary thought (specifically New Materialism and the Posthuman narratives), that seek to recognise shifts in how we see and relate to nature and to our various ‘environments’; our sense of affect within a deep time context and the subtleties of re-positioning our own priorities as a species to that of the broader ecology. Strand Drawings, Entanglement and the Interim Ecology takes it's cue from an earlier project (’Confluence’ link here), drawing on biological phenomena in the oceans prompted by oil spills. Here the work moves toward a ‘post-anthropocentric’ perspective, challenging our traditional understanding of how ‘nature’ and its interaction with cultural artifice is represented in a visual art practice.
The body of work develops a relationship between the primary medium of the blue mesh fibreglass tape and various substrates and object-based materials. The work seeks to humanise the inanimate surfaces and structures of our immediate surrounds through ‘abstract figuration’, imbuing organic forms onto surfaces in the tradition of figuration, while establishing an intrinsic relationship with those surfaces through an underlying sense of material kinship.
Artist statement: '... This ‘ecosophical’ field addresses Posthuman thought, and therefore exists in a space that is prospective and yet inherently bound in our own present constructs. The vocabulary of my work includes materials that are of nature and of culture (or ‘2nd nature’) including sandstone rocks, heat-rolled steel plates, paper of a multitude of types, tarlatan fabric, gyprock walls & panels both found and appropriated.. and the electric blue adhesive fibreglass tape. These materials are implemented in a way that sees them re-purposed and stripped down to their intrinsic material value, finding new forms and patterns when placed in dialog with one another. The gallery wall or studio space provides a place for these vignettes about potential future ecologies where the boundary between nature and culture, between human and non-human, are dissolved to create entangled scenarios within an interim ecology.'
(February 2021).
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This work exhibited at NAS GALLERIES in 2021.
Medium: fibreglass thread, mixed media.
Location: Sydney, AUS
Date: 2019/21
Details: Investigating material agency in the expanded field of drawing; interventions with the built environment; theories of entanglement within the shifting states of temporal ecologies. Referenced are the works of sculptor and philosopher LEE UFAN.
Ideas are influenced by writings in contemporary thought (specifically New Materialism and the Posthuman narratives), that seek to recognise shifts in how we see and relate to nature and to our various ‘environments’; our sense of affect within a deep time context and the subtleties of re-positioning our own priorities as a species to that of the broader ecology. Strand Drawings, Entanglement and the Interim Ecology takes it's cue from an earlier project (’Confluence’ link here), drawing on biological phenomena in the oceans prompted by oil spills. Here the work moves toward a ‘post-anthropocentric’ perspective, challenging our traditional understanding of how ‘nature’ and its interaction with cultural artifice is represented in a visual art practice.
The body of work develops a relationship between the primary medium of the blue mesh fibreglass tape and various substrates and object-based materials. The work seeks to humanise the inanimate surfaces and structures of our immediate surrounds through ‘abstract figuration’, imbuing organic forms onto surfaces in the tradition of figuration, while establishing an intrinsic relationship with those surfaces through an underlying sense of material kinship.
Artist statement: '... This ‘ecosophical’ field addresses Posthuman thought, and therefore exists in a space that is prospective and yet inherently bound in our own present constructs. The vocabulary of my work includes materials that are of nature and of culture (or ‘2nd nature’) including sandstone rocks, heat-rolled steel plates, paper of a multitude of types, tarlatan fabric, gyprock walls & panels both found and appropriated.. and the electric blue adhesive fibreglass tape. These materials are implemented in a way that sees them re-purposed and stripped down to their intrinsic material value, finding new forms and patterns when placed in dialog with one another. The gallery wall or studio space provides a place for these vignettes about potential future ecologies where the boundary between nature and culture, between human and non-human, are dissolved to create entangled scenarios within an interim ecology.'
(February 2021).
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This work exhibited at NAS GALLERIES in 2021.
UNTITLED (Reach), 2021 (exhibition view)
H260cm X W430cm. Fibreglass strand, gyprock walling, heat-rolled steel plate, steel pin mounts.
PARTING OF WAVES I, 2021H152cm X W275cm. Fibreglass strand, tissue paper, gyprock wall.
PARTING OF WAVES II, 2021
H152cm X W275cm. Fiberglass strand, sandstone rock, gyprock wall, plinth.
STAIRWAY (I Thought We Had More Time), 2020
W90cm X H120cm. Tissue paper, fibreglass mesh tape.
INTERIM ECOLOGY I (prima majoris), 2020
W320cm X H230cm X D200cm. Fibreglass strand, 6 steel armature bands, bluestone panel.
INTERIM ECOLOGY I (prima majoris), 2020 (detail)
INTERIM ECOLOGY I, 2020 (detail)
6 Steel armature bands, bluestone slate.
BLUE HORIZON/STRAND DRAWING ON 3 STEEL PANELS, 2021
W180cm X D60cm. Fibreglass strand, heat-rolled steel, epoxy enamel.
BLUE HORIZON/STRAND DRAWING ON 3 STEEL PANELS, 2021 (detail)
UNTITLED (All-Surface Spread), 2020 (installation view) H240m X W2300cm. Craft paper, tracing paper, tissue paper, tarletan, 250gsm cotton rag, paper tape, fibreglass mesh tape.
BLACKBOARD SYNCOPATION, 2019 (detail)
H187cm X W210cm. FIbreglass strands, blackboard mdf panel, aluminium pins.
UNTITLED (90degree turn / Waterfall), 2019 (detail)H120cm X W270cm. Fibreglass strands, Tarlatan fabric, aluminum pins.
Untitled (Waterfall / tailend repurposed), 2020 H120cm X W82cm. Fibreglass strands, Tarlatan fabric, Wooden frame, aluminium pins.
UNTITLED/The Floor Is Awash With Stones n Things, 2020D1.5m X W3m X H1.7m. Fibreglass strand, sandstone, copper plate.
UNTITLED (Elongation), 2020 (detail)
W3.2m X H2.3m. Fibreglass strand, gyprock wall.
UNTITLED (Elongation), 2020 (install view)
UNTITLED (Elongation), 2020 (install view)