26th March - 7th April 2009
Gaffa Gallery ~ 1/7 Randle Street, Surry Hills, Sydney ~
Artists: Kath Fries, Beth Norling, Linden Braye, Michelle Heldon, Virginia Mawer and Megan Sprague
lure, allure, illusion explores layers of sensory engagement within artistic processes and materiality. Each artist reveals and manipulates elements of attraction and repulsion, which are specific to their personal selection of unusual and non-traditional materials. The finial artworks, shown together for the first time in this exhibition, entice you to respond physically and emotionally to the tactility of the artworks. In some cases you are specifically invited to touch the work, but in others you are instructed to control your impulses. Perhaps the most challenging situation develops when no clear directions are given, then you must decide for yourself what level of tactile engagement you are prepared to hazard. The works exhibited in lure, allure, illusion compel a personal exploration of the relationships between seduction and destruction, which extends beyond the gallery into broader to issues of consumption, consumerism, denial and desire.
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... 26th March - 7th April 2009 ... Gaffa Gallery, 1/7 Randle Street, Surry Hills, Sydney ... Artists: Kath Fries, Beth Norling, Linden Braye, Michelle Heldon, Virginia Mawer and Megan Sprague ...
About Me
- Kath Fries
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- I'm an artist based in Sydney, on the lands of the Gadigal and Wangal people of the Eora Nation. My practice explores how our senses connect us to our surroundings, engaging with the immediacy of present time experience and the impermanence of existence. Working with tactile materials and embodied entanglements with place, my sculptural installations grow from a process of quiet observation to reflect on instability and fragility. By developing attentive focus and working with found, natural or everyday materials, I link sensate experiences of materiality and haptic thinking to evoke direct empathetic and palpable experiences of time, fluctuation and change. www.kathfries.com
