28 August 2014

Sue Pedley

Sound Lines

29 August to 14 September

Opening Thursday 28 August, 6-8pm  



Sound Lines is a series of drawings made during a textile field trip in Gujurat, India (February 2014) and at a Land Art Project in Fall, Norway (July 2014). The chinagraph drawings and rubbings were made on a tour of textile factories, workshops and museums in Gujurat. They were made on the run, in buses, museums, artisan studios and ancient mosques, temples and traditional step wells. There are line drawings of colourful and intricate embroideries from Ahmedabads Calico Museum and others from the Rabari embroidery workshop at Kala Raksha; the rubbings were made at Gandhi s ashram, in markets and woodblock workshops. The drawings were made in Norway as research for a site specific work titled Birch Bridge. The materials for the workbirch wood, hemp, brooms and panswere found in situ, except for  a woollen fleece bought from Tasmania (my birth place) specifically for the project. Carbon paper was used to copy each drawing and rubbing, the carbon copy becoming in turn the foundation for a new work. A number were made in response to sound works by composers in the project; other artists collaborated in drawing. Each collection of drawings was made in a particular location, over a three week period in the company of artists and designers. Gathered together, exhibited side by side, they are a diary of images, conversations, history, fast impressionsgrounds for a deeper understanding of a new place and the complex layers of history that go to make up each sites identity. Land Art Project Participants: Boyd, Alison Clouston, Caroline Ho-Bich-Tuyen Dang, Kaisu Koivist, Egil Martin Kurdol, Kjell Samkopf

Image: Sue Pedley, detail, carbon paper, 2014. 

http://www.suepedley.com.au/

6 August 2014

Brenda Factor and Sally Clarke

Concentric/Eccentric

8 August to 24 August
Opening Friday 8 August, 6-8pm  


An exhibition by Sydney based artists Sally Clarke and Brenda Factor.

Sally Clarke explores spatiality and identity through various formal placements of line both in the form of concentric circles and vertical lines. The work engages with the eccentric through the malleability of the plasticine, the anomalous character of pink and the shifting perceptions of the work as the viewer passes by. 

Brenda Factor creates small-scale paintings that combine the language of jewellery making with painting. In this body of work she continues her exploration of repetition and rhythm, this time within a grid format, undermining the formality of it's rigid structure by overlaying the craft of the handmade.

Images (left to right): Brenda Factor, Untitled, 2014. Spray paint on aluminium, 17 x 17cm. Photo: Brenda Factor. Sally Clarke, The Big Cow, 2014. Plasticine on wall, 80 x 80cm. Photo: David Eastwood.

http://brendafactor.com.au/
http://www.sallyclarke.com.au/