Summer Studio: heat amplifies scent

Emma Berry mediates introverted encounters with everyday spaces, objects and moments. Foregrounded in her own experience, Berry’s practice entails an entanglement of writing methodologies and non-traditional art materials. Generating poetic echoes, Berry creates fragmentary works that are unassuming and nostalgic, which become dedications to memories and encounters. Within the constant exchange of information in the world, her work functions as a moment of intrinsic reflection as it honours the incidental and overlooked moments of everyday life, holding a persisting awareness that all lived experiences are different to others.

Viva Hall is a Melbourne based artist who relishes in a trip to the supermarket to buy her materials. Concerned with food consumption and sustainability, ephemeral and discardable substances are manipulated in an investigatory way to give them value in their translations. Through site specific scores and performances Hall plays with duration, using the aural potential of materials and the spaces they inhabit as a basis. Through performative interactions these objects gain significance, as if they are worth serenading.

Olivia Moriarty entangles methodologies of finding and collecting with intuitive making and site sensitive transformations. Moriarty collects the overlooked - concrete rubble, a latch from a window, a photograph, a word - these references are both preserved and recontextualised. Works are poetically satisfying; holding an agency within themselves as a self-fulfilling conversation is held between objects, architecture and space.