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february 6 - 23, 2008
by Matthew On
Matthew On’s latest series of works focuses on the view of the city via the eye of a surveillance camera. With an interest in the aesthetics inherent in a surveillance camera image, the artist also explores the connotations of fear and security.
“Aesthetically, the muted tonal quality of the surveillance camera is very attractive to me. Its ambiguous nature, the pixilation of small detail actually leaves what is meant to be ‘an accurate record of time’ strangely open to fantasy and a person’s imagination.”
Of particular concern to the artist is the idea of pre-empting danger; the need to invade another person’s space to secure one owns safety; and how observation is altered by a mechanical eye that carries a notion of fear.
Matthew On is an emerging artist based in Sydney. After completing a degree in painting/drawing at the College of Fine Arts, he has exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
LAYERS
by Justine Barlow
In LAYERS, Justine Barlow explores the control and investigation of functions within the human body; from the external to the internal.
Several beautifully painted life-sized torsos of skin, skeleton and organ layers are encased in Perspex in a 3 dimensional installation. These watercolours combine the influences of medical illustration and portraiture to explore the mechanistic nature of the human body that is beyond our immediate reach.
Justine Barlow is a recent graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts.
by Robyn Base
This series of paintings by Robyn Base is a result of a trip made to Antartica in early 2007. Using a reduced palette, the icebergs are painted with an observational severity, depicting a silence and solitude experienced not so much within a landscape genre but more as portraits, or still life.
There is a strange visceral quality, like teeth and bones, or an almost ‘meatiness’ to some of the works. Rather than negating the ephemeral qualities of ice, this observation highlights the parallels between the transience of both ice and flesh. The body too, is subject to change and time-based transformations.
Ghostly and otherworldly, Base’s icebergs float within their dark canvases, inbued with a temporal sense of waiting and watching.
Robyn Base recently completed her Master of Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts.
opening night drinks
thursday february 7
6-8pm
exhibition duration: february 6 - 23, 2008