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gallery 1

Pamela Rataj – the Architectonics of Roger McGovern

Scott Connell – Video Tapes of Accumulated Time

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Hendry has made boxes that you might put things in. Rataj has made spaces you might find yourself in. Connell has written things to put in your ear. Through sculpture, drawing, painting, collage and writing these three artists explore human finitude: unthinkable thought, repetition of origins and death.

Rataj, Hendry and Connell have exchanged ideas and followed each others work closely for a number of years. Each of them has seen nuances of their ideas develop in each other’s work.

This is their first collaborative exhibition.

gallery 2

Ken Wentworth

Cathy Daly

Celebrity faces go under the knife.  Ghoulish and freakish, Wentworth’s images are sideshow alley bright.  With cutting wit and slick brush Ken Wentworth’s ‘Poparazzi Series’ takes media images into the art world and strips them bare.  Wentworth exposes our obsession with fame, and the famous, while exploring the many ways in which celebrities strive to reinvent themselves. 

By contrast, Cathy Daly reinvents space.  Her images are toned down, quiet and carefully constructed.   Playing with scale, and delicately layered planes of vision, Daly creates depth and an illusionary space for us to inhabit.

Both artists are undertaking a study of the illusionary.  Repositioning their subjects into a new context, enabling new perspectives of meaning to emerge from the dialogue with their work. 

gallery 3

Naomi Pitts

The arborescent silhouettes of ‘dusk’ quietly exude a foreboding presence from the canvas. Naomi Pitts has stripped the post-colonial backyard down to its post-apocalyptic reality.  The hyper-real colours reflect our genetically altered seasons.  Autumn is not brown any more, and summer might be a light charged yellow or a heavily hazed pink.

Inspired by her travels to South East Asia, Pitts has created a unique visual language.  The suburban Australian backyard has been infused with Ang Lee’s aesthetic.  The result is an urban myth captured in stasis between breaths.  The silhouette’s flat mechanical surface corrupts the romantic notion of paint.  The viewer is left with the quiet serenity of a naked painting.

Pitts is a recent graduate fromRMIT and was a finalist for the prestigious 2005 Metro5 Award.

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