WINDOW ROOM : DARREN HEALEY

Exhibition dates. 25 Jan - 5 Feb 2023
Opening Reception : Fri 27 Jan 2022, 6:00 - 8.30pm.

Darren Healey is an artist from the U.K. now based in Melbourne who works in sculpture and video. He is interested in the wider universe and explores the unpredictability and instability of everyday life from a cosmic perspective, that produces a renewed sense of wonder toward ourselves.

Releasing work under the aptly named 'dformed' he creates sci-fi tinged disfigured sculptures. The pieces or "dforms" take inspiration from scientific principles, theories and the visual geology of the natural cosmos, encapsulating chaos and tension whilst simultaneously being suspended in time.

When approaching his work Darren creates a highly anarchic setting that is transferred to the dforms. Using clay, metal and polyurethane, the sculptures undergo a barrage of crashing, smashing and tearing, stimulating the conditions found not only in outer space but in our own lives. His intention is to force the viewer to consider one’s current place in this vast, ever fragile environment - a type of self reflection.

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