Wax on Wood closes tomorrow at 5pm

 

above: Mandy Burgess

Elizabeth Rankin

above: Philippa Hagon

Kirsten Drewes

images: Margaret Roberts

This project is supported by Resilience funding from the Inner West Council

Wax on Wood opens Saturday 5 September

Saturday 5 September-Sunday 20^th September

11am- 5pm Friday-Sunday
Opening  Event Saturday 5^th September 2pm-5pm

Wax on Wood

Exercises in Endangered Materiality

 Mandy Burgess

 Kirsten Drewes

 Philippa Hagon

 Elizabeth Rankin

  

This exhibition was inspired by finding the wooden inserts of an old beehive and marvelling at the waxen patina. Two interrelated ideas came together: the endangered status of world bee populations and the related decreasing of forests. The frames were archives from another world and a much more dystopian Anthropocene was our new and awful reality.

In conversation artists Mandy Burgess, Kirsten Drewes, Philippa Hagon and Elizabeth Rankin formed an idea to use wax and wood in a series of collaborative exercises that would relate to a specific site. All materials would be recycled items and all interpretations of either wax or wood would be accepted. This was not the destructive art of the Anthropocene but a return to the business of bees recreating a hive. Each piece separately would be like a musical scale to be practiced and developed. The artists of this exhibition celebrate the properties of wood and wax to create contemplative abstracted assemblages that draw on the inherent qualities of their endangered materials. The grain and opacity of the wood is complemented by the translucency of wax.

This relationship of the opaque and the translucent is the quiet rhythm within each piece and between the artworks. The walls and floor space will be activated in this collaboration. Assemblage sculptures of recycled materials will engage the space.

Philippa Hagon Botox#2 2020

Kirsten Drewes  The Last Rest 2020 

Elizabeth Rankin Medusa Wow 2020

Mandy Burgess Ensemble 2020

This project is supported by funding from the Inner West Council

Conditions of entry to the exhibition:

There are limited places in Articulate. You may be asked to wait a few minutes if it is full when you arrive.

Please stay at home if you’re unwell.
Stay at home if you’ve been in contact with a known or suspected COVID-19 case.
Please wear a face mask in Articulate.
Utilise hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.
Fill in your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.

Maintain 1.5 metres distance from other people. 

FROLIC FEEEZE 1 opening

Open 11am-5pm Fri - Sun 17 - 19 Jan

Megan Schwartz

Carla Cescon

Top: Kirsten Drewes; Lower: Tamsin Salehian, Rolande Souliere

photos: Sue Callanan

Artists talks for Articulate Turns Six: What Next - Saturday 17 December 3-5pm

Artists' talks by : Sue Callanan, Chantal Grech, Cecilia White, Rox de Luca, Ro Murray, Nola Farman, Paul Sutton, Pamela Leung, Margaret Roberts, Renay Petita /Raw Contemporary 

  
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Opening FRIDAY 3 JUNE - I’M OK, YOU’RE OK #2: Merryn Hull

Saturday 4 June to Sunday 19 June
Opening on Friday 3 June, 6-8pm

I’M OK, YOU’RE OK #2: Merryn Hull and
EXTRAORDINARY VIEWS (curated by Merryn Hull)
Ciaran Begley, Georgia Brown, Camilla Cassidy, Kirsten Drewes,
ek.1 (Katie Louise Williams + Emma Hicks), Stephen Little, James Nguyen

Image: Merryn Hull, 2016.

I’M OK, YOU’RE OK#2 and EXTRAORDINARY VIEWS present two groups of work showing concurrently at Articulate project space. I’M OK, YOU’RE OK#2 is a solo show of Merryn Hull’s work and EXTRAORDINARY VIEWS offers a collection of colleagues’ work curated by Merryn. Both exhibitions are positioned as exploratory research relating to Merryn’s PhD candidature.

Merryn Hull’s interdisciplinary practice reflects on the way we connect to the everyday. It does this by exploring objects and ideas configured in constructed environments so that they can be understood in ways discovered by the viewer. The idea behind both exhibitions is that the everyday becomes special if viewed in particular ways. Recognisable objects, both in substance as well as subject are transformed through context into art objects. The objects and materials used in this way give the works a twenty-first century focus acknowledging a culture that celebrates things that are no less brilliant despite their ready availability.

The exhibitions also investigate our capacity to look inwards at our lives. They do this by presenting a series of framed views which provide a kind of evidence relating to our current world while at the same time offering the opportunity to step into another world. They also comment on the nature of contemporary painting by referencing ideas which expand the notion of ‘painting’ as painting in terms of its traditional medium definition; ‘painting’ as installation which alludes to painting; ‘painting’ as photograph which functions as painting and ‘painting’ as video/projection which uses the moving image to evoke painting.

www.merrynhull.com