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Louis Gill

The God in the Mountain

 

From vista points designed to inspire and awe people with uninterrupted views of the highest peaks and natural formations, Louis Gill’s photographs observe subtle changes within the landscapes. During his time in the Himalayas Louis’ experience of these subtle changes emphasized to him the unique and personal nature of such encounters. In these images, the juxtapositions of the scale of the mountains to their inhabitants suggests that despite our increasing desire to commune with nature, natural forces will continue to assert the futility of human efforts to shape the environment.

Jessica Anderson-Kunert & Caitlin Greenwell

The days grow long...

 

Jessica Anderson-Kunert and Caitlin Greenwell are Melbourne-based artists interested in exploring the relationship between written narrative and visual arts. Operating in sculpture/installation and creative writing respectively the duo launched the first of their collaborative efforts at Conduit Arts in May this year with a show titled Memory Palace.

 

Addressing themes of memory, time and loss The days grow long… poses questions about our evolving relationship with memory and its active reconstruction across time.

Tom Larkey & Meg Bates

The Lands

 

Evolution of The Lands begins in the domestic realm, a studio alcove off the kitchen where two artists live. Here the discovery is made that communication and co-existence in imagery as well as reality revolves around two drawing practices.

 

Tom Larkey and Meg Bates construct unsettling, other-worldly environments referencing eighties fantasy and decomposing landscapes, where characters and beasts of uncertain origin journey through devastated terrain.

 

The relationship between the two artists as well as their interpretations of everyday life inform each drawing. The themes of everyday life are played out through drawings of grocery needs and the feeding habits of their dog, Evie Poggins, exchanged on a kitchen notepad.

Todd Anderson-Kunert

Everything in its place


Todd Anderson-Kunert’s practice explores how we can psychologically perceive environments and atmospheres, and the roles that sound and image can have within this process.

‘Everything in it’s place’ is an installation work consisting of two large scale images and a multichannel sound installation. The work has also been constructed into 10 limited edition tins containing a greyscale risograph of each image, and a USB drive containing the installation audio. 

Genèvre Becker & Kartini Bell

Projected Geographies

 

Projected Geographies is an installation created by collaborative duo Genèvre 

Becker and Kartini Bell, that features moving totem inspired sculptures that project light and imagery onto the surfaces of the gallery. The exhibition at Conduit Arts will suggest a consciousness of space and placement in dynamic surroundings, using movement and the projection of light, whilst responding to a theme of mapping and geographies.  

 

Through this project, the duo will endeavour to further their investigations of how the viewer interacts with art through the manipulation of light, projection and space.

Brent Greene

Glitterosophy

 

Brent Greene’s practice explores the tradition of landscape representation in Australia.  From the populist perspective these representations were chiefly European and resulted in the landscape being perceived as beautiful compositions or pristine wilderness.

 

The artist challenges these preferences through the appropriation of iconic imagery, arguing the traditionalist perspective whitewashes a range of underlying landscape narratives that include themes of genocide, displacement and ecological xenophobia.  

Ben Taranto, Dominic Kavanagh & Leo Kavanagh

Resonant Residents

 

Resonant Residents is a collaborative exhibition by artists Ben Taranto, Dominic Kavanagh, and Leo Kavanagh. Conduit will play host to an array of found and collected objects and constructed forms selected by the artists for their common resonant quality. Over this three day residency the objects will be subject to sculptural and sonic appropriations by the artists. On opening night the audience will experience a performance of resonating, raw and evocative sound generated by the artists as they interact with their constructed instruments.

Curated by Kasia Lynch

Doing Impressions

 

Doing Impressions presents new project responsive works by Holly-Anne Buck (UK), Justin Brown Durand (USA), Louise Boye Andersen (DK), Marcus Keating (UK), Kasia Lynch (AU) and Rosa Tato (AU).


Provoked by a news article, ‘Is Damien Hirst a serial plagiarist?’, Melbourne based artist Kasia Lynch presents her first curatorial project by bringing together an international group of artist peers to consider the nature of originality in art.

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Doing Impressions explores notions of original creative thought and artistic appropriation through to reproduction and mimicry in an exhibition of new sculpture, drawing, collage and video works.

Marie Schoenmaker

it's your turn

 

Marie Schoenmaker’s practice investigates common tensions within close relationships. Affected by an era where equality is a more common concept she is also very aware of equality’s shortcomings. Marie questions whether an equilibrium is at all maintainable or if it is bound to forever come in ebbs and flows.

 

it’s your turn, performed by the artist, Marie Schoenmaker and her partner, Leo Kavanagh, focuses on exploring compromise as an inevitably unbalanced act. Schoenmaker argues that compromise neutralises equality and creates tensions within relationships. It is this tension, which it’s your turn seeks to magnify. 

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Lauren Bamford

Vocation Vacation

 

The latest series of works by photographer Lauren Bamford is a record of a driving trip from Broome, WA to Darwin, NT. Bamford's images aim to portray the extreme conditions of the Kimberley region and its discordant relationship with the man-made environment.

 

The approach taken here builds on Lauren's previous work, which has included the exhibitions I hope you choke (2011), Neither excluded nor included (2011) and Field Notes (2013). Her images attempt to capture familiar memories in unfamiliar surroundings.

 

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Michele Grimston

Spaces for Dreaming

 

It is the secret places that give us power and reinvigorate our souls, but we are in danger of losing them. Losing them to callous disregard for our environment, to the disappearance of the boundary between personal and private, and to the powerful call of the world of busy-ness. Spaces for Dreaming offers up those secret places, as places for reflection and contemplation, transporting us from the everyday to the magical and reminding us of the importance of dreaming.

Claire Robertson & Ria Green

From the Table

 

At times we monumentalise residue, we place wooden stumps and chains around it or place it in a frame with glass and look on at it in wonderment. At other times we push it to the side, attempting to prevent it from penetrating our present.

 

From The Table is a collaborative project between Ria Green and Claire Robertson examining that which is ‘left behind’. The artists play with notions of the physical and psychological, public and private, shared and individual residue, to form the content of their exhibition. The project was initiated with a dinner party between ten female Melbourne artists at which Claire presented on the theme of residue and Ria collected the physical remnants of the evening.

 

Alexander Dathe

Mr Morosoph

 

Mr Morosoph, takes its title from Erasmus’ use of ‘morosophoi’ in the 1509 text 'Praise of Folly’. Beginning with an engagement with materiality of the process of art making, this exhibition will show the process of print, collage and sculpture. The combination of classical imagery with ideas of the absurd and stupidity present an idea of a morosophoi, as the learned fool, foolish-wise. Through a mixed media installation Alexander Dathe's work references classical sculpture, contemporary western culture as well as the animal and plant world. By presenting Apollonian rationality via classical imagery with ideas of stupidity, the exhibition Mr Morosoph can be viewed as a quiet observation on the typical essential paradoxes of our contemporary existence.

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