This Language Rematerialised

25 September – 20 October 2024

Wednesdays – Sundays
12 – 5pm and by appointment

Our opening exhibition features a variety of rewritten stories through visual, verbal or tactile language that is distinctive to each artist’s navigation of the world – and their negotiation with society.

With 4 artists who are in early stages of their careers in dialogue with 4 others who have been further along, the show initiates a generational and geographical exchange of lived experiences and approaches to making new stories from the old.

A central aim is to indicate how contemporary art can be a form of expression for both holding onto and rejecting – remediating and restoring – in society, as part of a lifelong process of evolving one’s sense of self and identity.

Image above: Detail from Khushboo, Whispers of the Past, 2023, hand-felted merino wool and hand-embroidered stitching.

  • 01 | Stevie Ronnie, Very Gently Weep (or a Dictionary of Lost Cries), 2023

    01 | Stevie Ronnie, Very Gently Weep (or a Dictionary of Lost Cries), 2023, The words for ‘cry’ in fourteen critically endangered languages rendered in Braille on gesso primed canvas scraps, crater paper, marbled paper, fluid acrylic, ink, linen thread, beeswax, book board, pillow, and childhood blanket, dimensions variable.

  • 02 | Khushboo, Hostile Home, 2023, hand-felted merino wool, 60 x 84 cm.

    02 | Khushboo, Hostile Home, 2023, hand-felted merino wool, 60 x 84 cm.

  • Steve Dutton, 'The Flickering Institution', 2015–23, graphite, ink, glitter, and acrylic on canvas, 160 x 120 cm.

    03 | Steve Dutton, The Flickering Institution, 2015–23, graphite, ink, glitter, and acrylic on canvas, 160 x 120 cm.

  • M Lissoni, 'Martyrology', 2022, hardcover, 5 booklets, lithograph print, 17 x 24 cm.

    04 | M Lissoni, Martyrology, 2022, artist book [hardcover, 5 booklets, lithograph print], 17 x 24 cm.

  • Christie Swallow, 'Under the Reservoir There Was a Village', 2024, mixed patchwork quilt work, 109 x 123 cm.

    05 | Christie Swallow, Under the Reservoir There Was a Village, 2024, mixed patchwork quilt work, 109 x 123 cm.

  • Tony Bowen, 'Brighton Road, Lancing: Apology' from the series ""Scratch: Urban Palimpsests"", 2014–20, photography, archival pigment prints, 60 x 62 cm.

    06 | Tony Bowen, Brighton Road, Lancing: Apology from the series Scratch: Urban Palimpsests, 2014–20, photography, archival pigment prints, 60 x 62 cm.

  • 07 | Oriane Stender, Bookpage Totem (scroll), 2018, handwoven waxed pages of A la recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust, 38 x 81 cm framed. 

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