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december 3 - 20, 2008
by KIRSTEN PERRY
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In Gallery One Kirsten Perry presents stroke, a breathtaking installation of exquisitely detailed large-scale ink drawings along with smaller works on paper.
The exhibition is based on the artist’s fascination with the human-animal relationship as portrayed through mythology, folklore and scientific illustration.
The works display Perry’s interests in the dual exchange of man-animal characteristics and the hierarchies imposed upon animals. The experience of time is a key issue for the works, each taking several weeks to complete; they have been constructed directly from specimens allowing the artist to form a close connection with each subject.
Informed by her childhood growing up in rural Victoria and the stories and values passed down through her family, the works synthesize her own experiences with concepts of constructed identity.
Kirsten Perry is a Melbourne based artist who holds a BA Fine Art and Diploma of Visual Arts. She has exhibited in various group exhibitions in Victoria and New South Wales including more recently “New Terrain: Sustainability, Environment and Community” at the Ararat Regional Art Gallery. This will be her debut solo exhibition. She currently teaches Visual Arts at NMIT.
by KELLYANN GEURTS
This exhibition re-imagines, in a contemporary context, two theories from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that were concerned with capturing thought.
One, from a small book published in 1901 titled “Thought Forms”, explores ways to make thoughts tangible by interpreting them through colour and shape.
The second theory was produced around the same time, by the French scientist, Dr. Baraduc, who aimed to “capture” impressions of thought on light sensitive photographic plates. This process he termed “Thought Photography”.
The photographic imagery included in this exhibition, displays various modern “thought recording devices” and imagined output.
Kellyann is currently undertaking a PhD at the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University. The theme of the research, located in a sci-fi genre, examines mental landscapes through Thoughtography.
by IRENE WELLM
These large scale paintings by Irene Wellm are an exploration of the mirrored self, a meeting at the cusp of day (consciousness) and of night (the unconscious).
The title of this show, ‘Dämmerung’, means ‘twilight’ in German, and describes “a change of light, a transition period, a light containing both day and night”.
Irene Wellm uses family photographs and found images to set the stage, she then begins to re-imagine the narrative into a personal allegory through the materiality of paint.
Her interest lies in the contrast of the painted surface, in its layers that reflect light, and the reduction of information from the original image when it is transposed.
Her dreamlike, sometimes haunting images will intrigue and reach beyond the personal toward the collective stream.
Irene Wellm resides and works in Melbourne where in 2001 she completed a Master of Fine Art
opening night drinks
thursday december 4
5 - 7 pm
exhibition duration: december 3 - 20, 2008