Site(s)
Lina Buck, Paul Murphy, Garth Howells
18 Apr–5 May 2018
Site(s) was inspired by how the force and meaning of locations can shape Art making. It explored the processes of each exhibiting artist in relation to space and site. Varied locations manipulate the meaning of art objects, objects that stand as both a response and homage to the site.
Lina Buck’s practice investigates the experience of space in relation to the object and the figure captured in time. She explores the experience of site through measurements of the body across consecutive frames of a performance.
Garth Howells utilizes the waste in artist's studios to render an always in-progress artwork, sweeping up dust, dirt and byproducts of the creative process to use in the place of paint. Their work scrutinizes the traditions of materials, investigating art as a commodity.
Paul Murphy’s sculptures are an investigation into the site of Lake Pedder, a diversion lake used to produce electricity. His work symbolises the Rose Quartz beaches that once existed in this iconic natural alpine lake. If Lake Pedder still existed, it would have a status similar to Uluru.
Site(s) was inspired by how the force and meaning of locations can shape Art making.
This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.
Lina Buck’s practice explores the fast-paced transitional qualities of the present. Her work addresses both a personal and societal requisite for development; a state of impermanence, progression and the vulnerability of change. She utilises methods of performance to unpack and develop film and photographic works. Lina creates work that utilises the temporality of actions and to reflect on contemporaneity as a perpetual state of becoming, where actuality and authenticity form within the transitory.
Paul Murphy is an emerging sculptor based in Launceston with an interest in working with the notion of environmental change; more specifically the interplay between the man-made vs. natural and the subsequent results of this as we experience and consider the future.
Garth HowellsGarth William Howells is an artist living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. Howells approaches his work through responses to particular memories and emotions, using the often-blurry vision of memory as a starting point. Howells explores and examines feelings and ideas that relate to the formation of memory and free association. Seeking to create the experience of an unfolding, intensified and extended moment within a painting, equivalent to some of the heightened recollections we might experience through emotions associated with memory. From feeling hopelessly lost to ecstatically in love, his art is a cross-section of the universal life journey. Howells keeps elements open to interpretation through an inconsistent approach to painting. Working in the medium of painting, Howells graduated from RMIT University, Melbourne with 1st Class Honours. In 2018, Howells exhibited at MONA FOMA and was a finalist in the FortyFive Downstairs Emerging Artist award.
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