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| EXPLORATION
9 | | | | | | | | | | | | New
Emerging Artists | | | | | | | | | | | | May
26 - June 13 | | | | | | | | | | |
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DAVID BRADLEY : JEAN LYONS : BEN McKEOWN : LISA O'FLYNN JOHN PARKINSON : DAVID
PITT : MICHAEL STANIAK : JEE YOUNG PARK | .jpg) | | .jpg) | | |
Passus
I ink on silk 119 x 97cm | | Passus
II ink on silk 119 x 97cm | | |
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| Bradley's
softly resonant works appear to provide updates to the lineage of various moments
in the history of Western painting, however materially they address emerging vocabularies
of the information generation, substituting a knowledge of art historical images
with screen based manipulations and interventions suggesting a passage to experience
and re-interpret such cultural memory. Left with a residue of the transference,
his works offer an enquiry into both the painterly and the digital components
of new media practices. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Giant
Tree Floating, 2009 oil and enamel on canvas 122 x 137cm | |
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Using
a monochrome palette and matt and glossy surfaces Jean Lyons' high gloss enamel
paintings look more like prints than paintings. The silhouetted forms of trees,
rocks and sky are decorated and embellished with mottled patterns and flowers,
combat camouflage and bar-codes. These are repeated motifs stirred by disparate
ideas of displacement and belonging; chaos and harmony; transience and permanence.
Like a piece of Balinese shadow puppetry her surreal environments reveal a strange
and precarious drama. | | | | |
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Country
1 acrylic on canvas 153 x 158cm | | Country
2 acrylic on linen 92 x 122cn | | | |
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McKeown's
Australian Indigenous heritage is a steady source of inspiration in his works.
He draws on country and his place in the complex and differing landscapes and
communitys found within, from his traditional country on the West Coast of South
Australia to his place as a young gay man living in Melbourne. His work deals
with issues faced by many Indigenous people in Australia. | | |
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Transient
Breeze, 2009 MDF, steel wire, mirrors, enamel
paint 120 x 120 x 90cm | | | | |
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| O'Flynn's
installations, video works and paintings explore the reflective qualities of colour
and light. Forms shine against one another's surfaces to create a third, elusive
dimension. | | | | | | | | | |
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Goldern
Age, 2009 digital vinyl print on board 80 x 80cm | | Highway,
2009 digital vinyl print on board 80 x 80cm | | Sugartops,
2009 digital vinyl print on board 80 x 80cm | | | | | |
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John
Parkinson likes moving around the city, enjoys the potential of getting lost in
neglected parts of buildings. Curious about anything concealed or cordoned off
his photographs are taken on meandering expeditions into department stores, train
stations, through backstreets and other public spaces. Once in the confines of
the studio, artificial landscapes are built from these photographs, playing with
the familiarity of the cityscape and its logic to produce an other worldly, compelling
new image. | | | | | | | | | |
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Untitled
4 oil on canvas 46 x 46cm | | Untitled
5 oil on canvas 46 x 46cm | |
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David
Pitt's oil paintings examine concepts of light and shade in an attempt to bridge
the gap between the unknown and the witnessed. His small studies of unassuming
moments - a tree in a park, someone holding a lantern, on old lamp shade glisten
with silky blackness and golden warmth. Utalising the illuminatory and fleeting
quality of sun, flame and globe each scene houses within it a poignancy and emotional
purity evocative of the incommunicable human visual experience. | | | | | | | | | |
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Untitled
1 oil on canvas 180 x 130 cm | | Untitled
2 oil on canvas 180 x 120 cm | | Untitled
perspex, wood, fluorescent lights, silicon 160 x 123 x 123 cm0 | | | |
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Thousands
of years ago, the concept of space stretched across distances only measurable
by observation but as technology progressed, the distance travelled increased
and the speed at which it could happen reduced dramatically. At this moment, satellites
that have conquered cosmic space orbit the globe providing us with the means to
be almost anywhere at anytime. Staniak's luminous oil paintings and translucent
marquets transport the viewer to a very different time and space. | | | | | | | | | |
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DoJung
plastic 280 x 220cm | | | | | | | | |
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The
title of Jee Young Parks installation 'DoJung' recalls an old Korean word used
to describe a process or a journey to reach a destination or to achieve something.
Referring to both the experience of making and engaging with a work of art her
immersive environments literally take the viewer on a DoJung. Layers of thin plastic
sheeting part ways to reveal a pathway through which to travel. The physical sensation
of this encased and enveloping environment soften the senses - disorientating
and quiet. | | | | | | |
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