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Exhibition dates 19 th October to 5 November
please join us for opening night drinks Wednesday 19 October 6-8pm
Fleur Summers
Landslide
Landslide presents a study of the natural world and explores geological time and process. Each of the works attempts to reconfigure the landscape physically and metaphorically by challenging the viewers’ conceptions of space. These works on canvas present a potential future or past in which the sense of how we perceive landscape spatially is radically altered yet retains its formal integrity.
Using a reductive method of representation I have condensed the landscape to a series of linear ‘marks’. A sense of materiality is retained by making these lines with tiny hand cut slivers of archival brown paper tape. The silhouetted figures contextualise scale and matter as they propel themselves through space. They reconfigure the landscape physically and contextually to create a new and surreal narrative structure in which the viewer can explore ideas of the environment and our place in it.
History Paintings
In this series of works Cameron Bishop has concentrated on three types of space: the zoo, museum and the art gallery. Envisaged as heterotopias (from the combined Greek literally meaning other spaces), the three spaces are where time, represented in stratified objects, never stops accumulating. They are spaces of display in which objects are classified and arranged according to various needs: scientific, educational or historical. The philosopher Michel Foucault discusses how all cultures create heterotopias against which their “real sites” become unambiguous, clarified and legitimated.
It is alongside these institutions that we emerge as subjects; that we come to place ourselves in a narrative and learn who we are and who we are not.
By questioning the spaces with which we historicize ourselves and others, identify ourselves and others, and construct our very humanity with Cameron Bishop not only speaks of the fictions we create in our own real lives, outside the exhibition space, but those created on behalf of others.
Apple on a Stick
Apple on a Stick is an exploration of childhood clapping games using combinations of drawing, video and animation.
Clapping games are played in the school yard and beyond. By an informal process they are passed from child to child and generation to generation, mostly between girls. Some songs alter as they are passed-on, like Chinese whispers. Others are new and appear from an unknown origin. They consist of songs accompanied by clapping rhythms or actions performed with a partner or in groups.
What are these songs about? Are they trivial prattle or do they reveal something about childhood, gender roles and contemporary culture? Do they reflect the cultural background or social context in which a child belongs?
This exhibition will provide an opportunity to collect, document and interpret visually a selection of these organic, physical, musical and cultural human interactions.
