Melentie Pandilovski
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:03:09 -0700
opening this Thursday at the Experimental Art Foundation Bridget Currie Regulators
and, Paul Sloan Psychic Souvenirs both opening 6pm 6 August. 7 August–5 September Artists Talks 3pm Thursday 13th August Curated by Melentie Pandilovski Bridget Currie Every little thing needs a bit of help to get by. — artist’s notes Bridget Currie’s new work at the EAF will see the installation of a recently culled olive tree, and fragrance. Regulators seeks to incite the cycles of death, decay and life in the regulation of the ongoing order of things. Plant matter — as material, idea and reference — has formed part of the artist’s visual vocabulary for sometime as a way of unfolding understandings of weight, preservation (states of decay and aliveness) and time. In Regulators the Japanese practice of altering the structures of plants – either by crutches or selective pruning – has incited a set of thoughts around the way the dead hold up the living. “As a thought-image the tree suggests forces that are intangible but no less present: energy, pressure, and intensity. And yield as both produce (fruit, honey, oil, wood, paper), and as a giving way to resistance.”—Teri Hoskin, ‘Some tree time’, catalogue essay The artist has worked extensively with JH Lever & Associates Fragrance Design Studio to produce a perfume delivery system that will result in a subtle, changing experience of scent throughout the space. Bio Bridget Currie (b.1979) is a South Australian artist working predominantly in sculpture. She was one of the founders of Artist-run-initiative Downtown Art Space, and has been involved with independent art practice as an artist, writer, speaker and curator. In recent years her work has been exhibited at Artspace, PICA, 24HR Art, EAF, CACSA, Loose Projects, Bus, and other regional and artist run spaces. In 2007-2008 she undertook a residency at the Contemporary Centre for Art in Kitakyushu Japan, during which time she researched and produced Portable ends (things under pressure). Bridget Currie Regulators on eafweb http://eaf.asn.au/2009/currie.html Further images & details contact Teri Hoskin, i...@eaf.asn.au Paul Sloan Paul Sloan draws with paint and has recently been creating three dimensional works and installations. For his exhibition at the EAF the artist will install an expanded selection of the things that make his paintings work the way they do – drawings, paintings, sculptural objects, & audio traces – gathered in a way that resembles a ‘mini-museum’ of pyschic souvenirs. “Sloan is something of a bricoleur. He is retro in adhering so strictly to the ‘fine-art’ field of painting, and contemporary in the nihilism with which the various counters he manipulates at any one time are regarded. Where the bricoleur moves the pieces about with some attachment to their valency, some belief in their magic as symbols, Paul Sloan would appear to have almost no investment in his chosen elements’ relation to ‘truth’, only to their efficacy as ‘seeming’ true, briefly and for that moment and in that combination. On one level the art is brusque and dispassionate. On another it is rather lyrical—when it rounds on some beauty-producing juxtaposition of unlikely line, subject and colour.”—Ken Bolton, ‘A Fire Sale, A Drive-By Shooting: Gone in a Minute’ 2009, catalogue essay. Bio Paul Sloan studied painting at R.M.I.T in Melbourne where he received a Bachelor of visual arts, honours. In 2008 he undertook a residency in Shangai and exhibited in Dublin. Paul Sloan has shown his work widely in Australia and also in London, Prague, Dublin, & Shanghai. His paintings are held in private and public collections. Paul Sloan is represented by Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide. Paul Sloan Psychic Souvenirs on eafweb http://eaf.asn.au/2009/sloan.html Further images & details contact Teri Hoskin, i...@eaf.asn.au ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre