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LISMORE REGIONAL GALLERY
131 Molesworth Street | LISMORE
The New Arcadia
23 July to 3 September 2011
artists: Danie Mellor, Siri Hayes, Jake Walker, Kit Wise, Amber Wallis Hobie Porter, Jan Davis, Joan Ross, Kelly Hussey-Smith, Kendal Murray, Sarah Smuts-Kennedy, Fiona Lowry, Shelagh Morgan, Grant Stevens Judith Van Heeren, Sam Leach. curated by Kezia Geddes
The New Arcadia brings together artists responding arcadian aesthesicism and the picturesque. It throws light on an idealised depiction of landscape, but with visible disruption. This is the old world butting up against the new as the artists attempt to locate where arcadia is now.
Our present civilisation has achieved an unparalleled point of domination over nature and the ‘improved landscape’ is now a loaded term. Most arcadias have already been touched; the idea of a yet-to-be discovered environ seems a fanciful a notion in our times. In an era of competing interests, today’s arcadia evokes both beauty and compromise. It is out of this context that The New Arcadia unravels.
Image: Siri Hayes, Scene 3, Lyric Theatre series, 2002-2004, type c photograph, collection Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA, image courtesy the artist and Gallerysmith, Melbourne
My Own Place
23 July to 3 September 2011
An installation by Louise Gregg presenting symbolic coiled forms as visual vocabulary, speaking of complex narratives about life. At the core of her artwork is the intent to produce sculptural forms that engage material and process, using found resources and inspired from the immediate landscape. Discarded objects are reclaimed and reworked upon, giving them a new life and context. As coiled newspaper is attached to found wooden forms, an interrelationship of social and historical narratives from the object, the paper and the artist herself emerge.
Louise Gregg, Drum 2011, newspaper, jute, found object, dimensions variable, courtesy the artist.
