B-SIDE 2022 Artist-Editions
Katie West, HeeJoon Youn, Scotty So
20–28 Oct 2022
B-SIDE 2022 Artist-Editions
For our 2022 Blindside edition we’ve commissioned artists Katie West, Scotty So and HeeJoon Youn to design limited edition aprons. Get in quick.
In the third year of Blindside’s commissioned Artist-Editions, we are thrilled to present limited edition aprons designed by Scotty So, Katie West, a Yindjibarndi woman based in Nyoongar Ballardong country, and HeeJoon Youn.
Essential workwear for your studio or kitchen, these highly-sought after Artist-Editions are $65 and will be on sale in early October.
The latest edition follows the wearable art of 2021 in the form of caps designed by Sanja Pahoki, Jason Phu and Stanislava Pinchuk and in 2020 the life-changing puzzles by Atong Atem, Matthew Harris and Honey Long & Prue Stent.
Scotty So
STOP RIGHT NOW THANK YOU VERY MUCH
The design idea came from my work, Mel B Confirms Spice Girls Australian Tour, an industrial lollipop road sign made with Spice Girls' lyrics 'STOP RIGHT NOW THANK YOU VERY MUCH' on one side and 'GOTTA SLOW IT DOWN GOTTA HAVE SOME FUN'. The work was made referencing both the campiness of iconic pop songs and the masculinity of tradie equipment. I put the design on to the apron as I think the colour of the apron would work well with it and it is almost a way for people to be cautious and paying attention as they wear this apron in kitchens or workshops with the same purpose of the road sign.
Scotty So is represented by MARS Gallery.
HeeJoon Youn
waiting for my "genius" moment
The idea came from waiting for my "genius" moment for this apron. Whenever I have a breakthrough with a work in development, I have an internal fistbump/king of the world / "I'm a genius" moment with myself. None of the works I had in mind for the apron gave me that excitement and I kept waiting for that "genius moment" but the feeling never came. I thought I'd embrace it and turn it into a genius moment.
Katie West
Little wana/digging Stick
In her practice, Katie West reflects on her childhood in Noongar Yued Country. Growing up on a wheat and sheep farm, she and her brother would play and explore the paddocks, imagining people living on that Country before them. Katie also wondered about their family and Country hundreds of kilometres to the north.
This design is part of a growing body of work contemplating the similar and divergent characteristics of digging sticks and star pickets. Both objects are elongated to a width ideal for human hands, and both have a pointed end to pierce the earth. However, digging sticks and star pickets represent different relationships to Country. Katie is interested in the tensions, questions and reorientations that arise when these objects are placed side-by-side.
In the third year of Blindside’s commissioned Artist-Editions, we are thrilled to present limited edition aprons designed by Scotty So, Katie West, a Yindjibarndi woman based in Nyoongar Ballardong country, and HeeJoon Youn.
Katie West is an artist and Yindjibarndi woman based in Noongar Ballardong country, working in installation, textiles and social practice. The process and notion of naturally dyeing fabric underpin her practice –the rhythm of walking, gathering, bundling, boiling up water and infusing materials with plant matter. Using found and naturally dyed textiles, video, and sound, Katie creates installations, textile pieces, and happenings that invite attention to the ways we weave our stories, places, histories, and futures.
HeeJoon YounMelbourne-based artist HeeJoon Youn is a graduate from Victorian College of the Arts. Her works are naive attempts to make sense of a sometimes overwhelming life. Recent exhibitions include Seventh Gallery, Caves and Blindside.
Scotty So is a Melbourne-based artist who works across media, using painting, photography, sculptures, site-responsive installation, videos and drag performance. Driven by the thrill of camp, he explores the often-contradictory relationship between humour and sincerity within lived experience. Born and raised in Hong Kong, So graduated with BFA Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia, 2019. So’s work has been shown in Hong Kong, China and Australia.