Exhibition dates: 22 Jan - Sun 2 Feb, 2020
Space 1
The little big
Skylar Ru Silva
‘The little big’ is an intimate and playful exploration of the relationship between self reflection and beauty.
In this series I draw inspiration from the mediocre, the minute and often overlooked; the intricate and changing abstractions in finger smudges on smart phone and tablet screens. They fascinate me. They’re an organic byproduct of a digital function. The transient tire tracks of Automatic reflex, executed with unconscious precision and rhythm.
Space 2
The value of identity
Avan Anwar
War is destruction and leads to displacement of people. Displacment significantly impacts on identity and its deterioration. Only memory rescues identity and connects past with the present and the future. For displaced people identity has a value which connects them with their roots.
Space 3
People I Sought of met
Tim Coleman
I predominately paint with oils and acrylics to try to capture the essence of a brief moment or idea through multiple perspectives both visually and emotionally. Two people could walk down the same road and have completely different experiences; my aim is to create artworks that visually construct fleeting memories that people can read and somehow identify empathetically with some aspect of the image and use this as a starting point to explore what’s happening within the image. I use references from found photos that have been lost or discarded, self-taken photos as well as images formed from my personal experiences. With this series I explore portraits of people I sought of met at a job one day. There were so many new faces and stories that they started to meld together so I decided to paint them based on my distorted memory of who they were. I don’t know them, they are people I sought of met, much like many of the people you have sought of met. The works are painted in acrylic and oil on offcuts of ply from varies building jobs.