New Kids on the Block brings together a hand picked selection of Sydney's art schools newest talent.
Gaffa's curatorial team of Liz McCrystal and Talia Smith have hand selected graduates from all of the Sydney art schools (ADUNSW, NAS, UTS and SCA) to represent some of the latest and greatest talent coming out of Sydney's art programs. The exhibition features a mixture of mediums from photography to sound to sculpture with each student bringing their own point of view on the world as seen through their eyes.
Featuring the work of: Alex Wright, Bronwen Williams, Caroline McGregor, Chrystal Rimmer, Heath McCalmont-Parkinson, Hiroo Shinozuka, Justyna Stanczew, Katya Petetskaya and Lauren V Morehouse.
Alex Wright
Throughout my work the removal of spatial form and contemporary expectations challenged the responder to consider the Internet as a truly unrepresentable space.
Bronwen Williams
Investigating the experience of the binary relationship between sound and silence, this installation uses directional speakers to create an almost silent atmosphere, which is interrupted when the viewer’s presence causes them to become their own amplifier. The audience member’s body interrupts the absorption of the sound and allows them to hear the frenetic and dystopian soundscape playing within.
Caroline McGregor
Reminiscent of Fred Sandback's yarn works, these steel lines both reject space while delicately defining it. As the viewer moves around the work the line and negative spaces alter and shift, implying internal movement, drawing the viewers eye around the piece in a graphic dance.
Chrystal Rimmer
Empirical
knowledge of the landscape forms a large part Rimmer's practice, she uses an
amalgamation of materials consisting of high and low quality materials drawing
on the clash of artificial and organic habitats.
Heath McCalmont-Parkinson
McCalmont-Parkinson's installation reveals tenderness, vulnerability, self-examination and duality within a relationship through formally composed photographs while also relating the intimate subject matter to the intimacy of the grouping of small prints.
Hiroo Shinozuka
Shinozuka's work is a reflection on the events surrounding the earthquake and tsunami. The work consists of eleven plates; these include a plate damaged during the 2011 earthquake in Japan. All of the broken plates have been repaired with a traditional Japanese technique, “Kintsugi”. The philosophy behind the technique is to recognize the history of the object and rather than disguise the break, to visibly incorporate the repair into a new piece.
Justyna Stanczew
She attempts to connect all the horizon lines on the television monitors while each lines vibrates. The horizon line can be interpreted as an illusion created between the ocean and the sky and is a space that can help us to visualise balance.
Katya Petetskaya
In the Cube, the performers share the weight of the cube between each other in a durational physical endurance performance piece. The dimensions and weight of the cube is such that it requires support of the other to share the burden.
Lauren V Morehouse
This work explores emotional attachments to place through mapping, using alternative forms to create a map of its own. It presents the “presence of place” over space, an example of data collection for a specific location interpreted through experience.
Gaffa's curatorial team of Liz McCrystal and Talia Smith have hand selected graduates from all of the Sydney art schools (ADUNSW, NAS, UTS and SCA) to represent some of the latest and greatest talent coming out of Sydney's art programs. The exhibition features a mixture of mediums from photography to sound to sculpture with each student bringing their own point of view on the world as seen through their eyes.
Featuring the work of: Alex Wright, Bronwen Williams, Caroline McGregor, Chrystal Rimmer, Heath McCalmont-Parkinson, Hiroo Shinozuka, Justyna Stanczew, Katya Petetskaya and Lauren V Morehouse.
Alex Wright
Throughout my work the removal of spatial form and contemporary expectations challenged the responder to consider the Internet as a truly unrepresentable space.
Bronwen Williams
Investigating the experience of the binary relationship between sound and silence, this installation uses directional speakers to create an almost silent atmosphere, which is interrupted when the viewer’s presence causes them to become their own amplifier. The audience member’s body interrupts the absorption of the sound and allows them to hear the frenetic and dystopian soundscape playing within.
Caroline McGregor
Reminiscent of Fred Sandback's yarn works, these steel lines both reject space while delicately defining it. As the viewer moves around the work the line and negative spaces alter and shift, implying internal movement, drawing the viewers eye around the piece in a graphic dance.
Chrystal Rimmer
Empirical
knowledge of the landscape forms a large part Rimmer's practice, she uses an
amalgamation of materials consisting of high and low quality materials drawing
on the clash of artificial and organic habitats.
Heath McCalmont-Parkinson
McCalmont-Parkinson's installation reveals tenderness, vulnerability, self-examination and duality within a relationship through formally composed photographs while also relating the intimate subject matter to the intimacy of the grouping of small prints.
Hiroo Shinozuka
Shinozuka's work is a reflection on the events surrounding the earthquake and tsunami. The work consists of eleven plates; these include a plate damaged during the 2011 earthquake in Japan. All of the broken plates have been repaired with a traditional Japanese technique, “Kintsugi”. The philosophy behind the technique is to recognize the history of the object and rather than disguise the break, to visibly incorporate the repair into a new piece.
Justyna Stanczew
She attempts to connect all the horizon lines on the television monitors while each lines vibrates. The horizon line can be interpreted as an illusion created between the ocean and the sky and is a space that can help us to visualise balance.
Katya Petetskaya
In the Cube, the performers share the weight of the cube between each other in a durational physical endurance performance piece. The dimensions and weight of the cube is such that it requires support of the other to share the burden.
Lauren V Morehouse
This work explores emotional attachments to place through mapping, using alternative forms to create a map of its own. It presents the “presence of place” over space, an example of data collection for a specific location interpreted through experience.
