un-bound
10th - 26th of January, 2021.
Weaving in and out of individual and shared truths, UN-BOUND embraces the distance and closeness that exists in our bodies, landscapes and experiences. A common ground thus emerges upon which a collective-consciousness may gather to expand presence.
Multi-disciplinary Australian contemporary artists interrogate the relationships between individual and collective states of being as they are held, static or free.
UN-BOUND implies a dichotomy between a held and released state. It is a suggestion – using the tension of its past tense to imply the freedom of its present and future.
To approach an act of UN-binding, UN-doing or UN-tangling, there must be a considered intent. It defines the trajectory that we further.
Featuring:
Anna Jalanski
Tilda Mae Clarke
Lucille Bone
Nina Prendergast
Kissy & Colin Sheppard
Luke Whitten
Anna Jalanski
Objects That Hold By Holding Each Other Is Like A Synonym For ‘I Don’t Like To Use Glue’
I use objects that have an interesting shape and texture, I am also intrigued by spaces which make up a form. I find these objects down the street, at the supermarket, at the op-shop and in my home. To choose an object, I need to have an initial excitement. I make decisions around the object impulsively because all I know is that I want to give something to the object itself. I want to give it something that complements its space; that folds it in a way to show off its precious details; squish it until it feels comfortable. Then I can see it speak with its own voice. After which, I leave it, take care of it and watch how it interacts with the space.
Tilda Mae Clarke
Gathering old, abandoned spider webs from the windows of my family home. The homes of spiders who are long gone, I arrange and layer them on medium-format film. The blood toned landscapes resemble trauma within a motif of life and death.
Firmly grounded in a multidisciplinary and exploratory approach to creating work, Tilda Clarke’s practice aims to find the common threads between installation, performance, video, tattooing, painting and sculpture. Giving insight into the unbound therapeutic potential of art making, her practice maps both physical and emotional landscapes through the use of natural, and found materials. She aims to unravel the impacts of trauma on the body, seeking to understand the response of PTSD derived from personal experience.
Lucille Bone
Lucille Bone sees what she does not understand and imagines and collects what she intends on knowing.
The process she encapsulates speaks to her truest self and to her automatic impulse of capturing ideas of body and form which builds the main ideologies of the work she portrays. Her development is built upon the unknown narrative which is mysterious, suspenseful and sensual.
Perceived by the artist as curious, unknowing and confused, her intention is to expose an infused photographic atmosphere that is enigmatically psychological through portraiture, architecture and landscape.
Nina prendergast
Muscles contract, eyes close, no internal monologue just icons. They swirl and distort to the point where their original meanings submit to new translations. In time, this whirlwind subsides and the icons ground themselves to a materiality. They graft to marble sculptures like fossilised foliage. Each stone relic is enlivened or decayed by their decoration.
Colin SHeppard
Trained as a sign writer back in the 80’s I found it to be my path of no return.
Using the skills I learnt, which enabled me to create perfect straight lines, corners and circles, gave me the opportunity to take things further, thus entering the world of decorative art.
I’ve lived and worked in this heavenly community for the best part of my life.
My work is seen spotted around town, being applied to both the interiors and exteriors of homes and venues.
Luke whitten
Luke Whitten is a Melbourne based artist from Aotearoa. The work is an inquiry into impermanence and transformation, an exploration into the transient changing nature of forms through stone, timber and colour.
Closing
28th of January, 2021.
A shadow. A memory. A reflection of the past. In conjunction with Gallery 17, Variation Three closes UN-BOUND. Through the fusing of artistic disciplines, Variation Three explores the collective memory of a shared experience. How does it change? Where does it move? How do the recollections of one differ to those of another? In using the physical forms of circus and dance, and melding them with live music and visual art, Variation Three invites you to see what has passed in new light.
Featuring:
嶋田会希 Elle Shimada
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Variation Three
Variation Three
Variation Three is a contemporary, multi-disciplinary arts company based in Naarm/ Melbourne.
With a focus on creating new and innovative work that questions the divide between artistic genres and disciplines, Variation Three hopes to expand the expectations around who and what constitutes an artist across the creative industries.
Variation Three aims to showcase a diverse and accurate representation of modern queerness. In sharing real stories from within the LGBTQIA+ community through their work, they hope to not only expand the assumptions about queer-made art, but also push audiences to reconsider their ideas around this community, and the often discriminatory laws that continue to govern their lives.
嶋田会希–ELLE SHIMADA
A violinist, producer, curator, DJ and multi-instrumentalist from Tokyo based in Melbourne. A unique combination of thickly layered string lines making tender love to heavy new-jazz influenced beats creates a cinematic and other-worldly atmosphere while keeping the dance floor pulsing with visionary and edgy production.
Fluidly fusing between Tokyo’s futuristic underground scene, London and Detroit House, LA Hip Hop, Melbourne mellow-jazz and sacred spirit’s songs somewhere deep in the mountains, Shimada’s production and live sets are a kinetic succession of dance beats and abstract compositions.