Opening Launch: Wednesday 18 September 6-8pm | Exhibition Dates: September 18 - October 5, 2024
Gaia Walicka & Nao Hirata
Empty Chaos explores the metamorphosis and the merging spaces of the in-between, through an expanded and experimental jewellery and object practice. We embrace chaos, abstraction and formlessness in metamorphic zones between bodies, objects and spaces. Through investigating the relationships between you and me, inside and outside, self and world, we speculate on new possibilities and perceptions of self.
Sarah Lockey, Jacqueline Nguyen, Sarah Marie Jones
The role of jewellery, be it decorative or symbolic, is to add beauty and meaning to our daily lives. However not all that is beautiful is merely seen or even touched. Some things are best felt.
‘A Sense of Jewellery’ is an exploration into the audible and sensory experience of jewellery. Moving beyond the physical, this exhibition explores a different understanding of the jewellery object, and how its beauty might be realised via its ‘music’.
Like the sound of tiny chiming bells suspended from your ears or the jingling of metal chains strung around your neck. Like the clacking of your ring as your hand alights the table or the jangling of many bangles as you dance around the room. Small sounds capable of eliciting emotions and even memories, they hold the capacity for a new experience of jewellery.
Leonie Leivenzon & Mira Krulic
This exhibition explores colour through the modern primaries of cyan (C), magenta (M), yellow (Y) and black (K- key). Combining CMYK can produce an almost limitless number of rich hues, tints, tones, and shades. However, getting the desired colour involves a painstaking process of mixing and experimentation, whether to match the colour of an object or to account for the differences between screen and printer. For this exhibition, Leonie and Mira have created new bodies of work using their respective mediums of paint and the camera lens to explore the endless possibilities and outcomes from these four basic elements.
Leonie is a multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. She uses found objects as a means of exploring the narratives we hold around things, the self and each other. A paint swatch found in a second-hand book sparked an interest in colour mixing, inspiring her to use paint to match the colours of found objects. Through this process Leonie examines how colour impacts our relationship with things and prompts creative expression.
Mira Krulic is a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist. Her current practice focuses on photo-media, transcending the boundaries of traditional photography. Through her lens, she transforms found objects with light and colour to evoke ambiguity and mystery. Mira explores the dynamic interplay between visible colour and the invisible object, examining how colour influences mood, emotion, and perception, creating an immersive experience.
