Off Cuts

Angus Brown and Louis McGowan

Opening Night Friday 22 April

From 5:00PM Onwards

Free Entry

Off Cuts is a collaboration between longtime friends Angus Brown and Louis McGowan, and explores their respective, and at times intertwined, image and object-based practices. Sharing an interest in the fabrication of our built and manufactured world, the show exists as an inquiry into how resourcefulness shapes new outcomes. 

Located within the classic Victorian terrace house of Gallery 17, Off Cuts refers to contemporary shifts in domestic spaces and the origins of the materials that form and accompany them. The works attempt to illustrate the tension between nature and the regiment of the standardised object world we inhabit.

Louis McGowan

Louis McGowan (He/Him) is a Melbourne (Naarm) based designer and photographer. Working in both furniture and analog image mediums, Louis is currently focused on bringing refinement to found and readily available materials within his local environment. Both of his practices continually feed off each other in his exploration of industrial processes. Louis is interested in the physical journeys of both Images and materials across space, and the cumulative sentiment derived through their ageing process.

Angus Brown

Angus Brown (He/Him) traverses the line between sculpture and photography through a practice that magnifies everyday material and form. Led by his structural sensibilities, Angus is concerned with how formal aspects of images are curated to achieve a certain harmony or disjuncture between the elements they document. Often turning to the two-dimensional form as a means of documenting series, sculpture, assemblage and iterations in real space, he is interested in constructing both physical and flattened spaces to accentuate and challenge the geometric congruence of everyday life.