The Situated Line is an exhibition by Boni Cairncross, Brogan Bunt, Jo Law, Michele Elliot and Ruth Hadlow whose diverse works have in common the expanded use of linearity and drawing.
OPEN: Fri-Sun 11-5pm, 26 April-12 May 2013
Artists' talks: Sunday 12 May at 2-4pm
The Situated Line began as a drift across materiality and drawing.
Reflecting on the intersections across our practices alongside the material
sensibility, what emerged was the underlying idea of the trace - framed by time
and place, proximity and distance. Across the exhibition is a concentration of
looping and repetition, a back and forth that locates the work within the
conundrum of an elusive present. The line is Brogan Bunt’s walking and
blogging, Ruth Hadlow’s woven wall texts, Boni Cairncross’ concentrated performance
to record the moment, Jo Law’s spinning skater and the threaded structures
above your head. The line becomes a fluid device to express particular relationships
to the liminality of time and place.
Michele Elliot April 2013
above & below: Michele Elliot beam 2013 (blue thread)
Boni Cairncross Performing the Situated Line 2013 (continuous performance)
above & below: Ruth Hadlow pulang 2013 (graphite pins thread cardboard)
above & below: Brogan Bunt A Line Made By Walking and
Assembling Bits and Pieces of the Bodywork of Illegally Dumped Cars
Found at the Edge of Roads and Tracks in the Illawarra Escarpment 2013
below:from: Jo Law Study #2: The Pleasure of Imperfection 2013
