Backroom | Annabel Nowlan - Flux

Opening Event Saturday Apr 9th, 2-5pm
Exhibition from Apr 8th until 24th
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

‘Eulogy 001’  Mixed media on copper on wood. 2022 60x55cms  

It’s unstable, reactive and maybe a bit toxic but that hasn’t tempered our obsession with the fragile beauty of Verdigris

Flux is a deep engagement with the natural (and unnatural) environment, focusing on the endless bounty of everyday aesthetic nuances. It is a selection of mixed media and curios that predominately feature verdigris surfaces, finishes and effects. Conceptually the works obliquely explore themes of: nostalgia, decay and environmental chaos.

The beauty in the seemingly mundane and the everyday is celebrated and bought to life. I am particularly drawn to surfaces that change and deteriorate with time and exposure to the elements. The appeal of these unique surfaces, found objects and unrefined materials are for me, suggestive of the tactile and kinaesthetic properties of the earth and our relationship with it.

The verdigris green patina surfaces are un-treated (unfixed) so they remain in flux and the colour will vary according to the surrounding humidity. Recipes for verdigris are found throughout ancient literature and include ingredients like salt, honey, vinegar and even urine to be applied to copper plates in order to cause the necessary chemical reaction.

While the mixed materials mimic and celebrate the rich vocabulary of the tamed and untamed environment, they also speak to human endeavour and misguided attempts to dominate and subdue the land.

Nowlan’s work often references her connection to Bimbi in south-western NSW, where her Irish convict ancestors have been farmers for six generations. In calling her exhibition ‘flux’, Nowlan acknowledges that the land is a continuously changing domain, and, any non-Indigenous attempt to narrate unceded lands will always be partial and incomplete.

'Time is of the essence' Mixed media on pegboard on wood  2022 60x55cms 

‘Going local’ Mixed media on ply on wood 2021 60x55cms 

‘Cloud i’ Pigment & paint on wood 2021 15x60cms

‘Cloud ii’ Pigment & paint on wood 2022 11x18cms

annabelnowlan.com.au

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Project space | Mark Ryan - Overlap

Opening Event Friday Mar 18th, 6-8pm

Exhibition from Mar 18th until Apr 3rd
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

 

Mark Ryan, Was Yours, Now Mine, (detail),
2022, oil, copper and paper on wood,
600 x 250 x 25 cm

Investigations into the themes of power, property and impermanent ownership: 'What once was yours, is now mine' and vice versa. Furthermore, what was once no-one’s can become anyone’s. And all rights can be obliterated by aggression, obsolesce or the passage of time.

https://www.instagram.com/mark.j.ryan/

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Wear a mask, social distancing rules will also apply.

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Backroom | Emilio Cresciani - State of Change

Opening Event Friday Mar 18th, 6-8pm
Exhibition from Mar 18th until Apr 3rd
Open 11am - 5pm | Fri-Sun

 

Emilio Cresciani, Breaking of Ice #7, 2020, duratran, 42 x 30cm, Edition of 3 + AP

The ice caps are melting. New topographies are created through rising sea levels. And as the ice sheets shrink, more light is absorbed onto the earth’s surface, further accelerating global warming. A vicious circle. 

In these works light travels through blocks of ice, large and small, industrial and domestic. As it slowly melts, its shape and form is changed. The resulting images document the frozen fragments refracting and reflecting light, producing patterns suggestive of shifting landscapes. The ice floats in a sea of negative space. 

Like a window into other worlds, drips and spots from the melting ice reference how humans have marked the earth. They reference the profound impacts of human-induced climate change on our landscapes.

The works were made during a Dark Matter Residency at PhotoAccess Canberra in 2020.

Emilio Cresciani Changing of Ice #13, 2020, duraclear, 76 x 56cm Edition of 3 + AP

Emilio Cresciani, Breaking of Ice #4, 2020, duratran, 42 x 30cm, Edition of 3 + AP

Ice is transparent and transient, whilst light penetrates and exposes. The artworks explore the relationship between these two elements and draw links between states of change, examining literally, figuratively, and abstractly, human impacts on the globe.

The works continue Cresciani’s interest in altered landscapes, in an abstract way, exploring negative space and particularly transition and transformation. Non-places like road works, waste centres, and deforested sites. 

Cresciani graduated from Sydney College of the Arts in 2012 and was a finalist in 2021 Earth Photo Award London and the KL Photo Award; 2019 and 2017 Bowness Photography Prize; 2018 and 2020 Mandorla Prize; semi finalist 2019 Head On; finalist 2015 Chippendale New World Art Prize, Agendo Art Prize and 2010 National Youth Self Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery. 

Emilio Cresciani Changing of Ice #12, 2020, duraclear, 76 x 56cm Edition of 3 + AP

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ArticulateUpstairs | Chantal Grech - Annotations, notations, notions

Three week work in progress
Project from Mar 18th until Apr 3rd

Opening times to be announced

Lake George- the Luxor desert

My work is never about a single idea. It’s more a constellation of fragments on a single subject looking for a form. That subject has been about home and the nature of belonging. For some time, home resided in the texts and the voice of others who have travelled the same way. But recently it has become more embodied involving momentary encounters with people I have never seen again. These encounters were like signposts, co-ordinates on a map, moments in the same narrative.

Each of us, I think, has a narrative that defines our life. Mine is one of displacement and migration. What gives it meaning are the details, often incoherent, like a mirage, constantly disappearing over a horizon just as a resolution is in sight. And so the question shifts and the journey begins again. What form this narrative can take is one of the ongoing questions posed in this work in progress over the three weeks in Articulate. What are the elements and what relationship between the visual and textual language of this narrative can co-exist in an art space without the conventional illustrative relationship between image and text without losing the specificity of those moments.

The aim here is not to seek coherence or resolution but to ask the question-what is possible if anything. The project begins with both abstract and and representative elements juxtaposed and laid one on top of the other. As such there are no 'works’ only incomplete fragments searching for a form and the only rule is to keep moving.

Nb: Here colour is selective; red, black and white are the colours of the Egyptian flag and though I do not wish to emphasise nation states it seems colour here matters (this flag and these colours were used in the Arab spring to represent the Egyptian people as a united community just as we are seeing blue and yellow as the colours for Ukraine). 

Red is an ongoing colour in my work and represents for me the colour of blood and roses and perhaps as John Berger says, ‘could it be that red is the only colour that is constantly seeking the body?

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Conditions of entry:

NSW Public Health Order requires all visitors over 16 years of age,

To sign in with the QR code provided at the entrance,

Wear a mask, social distancing rules will also apply.

Please don't come if you are feeling unwell.

Articulate is a registered Covid Safe business.

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