WHEN : 4th – 19th October / Opening 4th, 6:00 – 9:00pm
WHERE : The Hold Artspace 274 Montague Rd, West End, Brisbane
Move is Chris’s first solo exhibition in Brisbane since completing a Doctorate of Visual Art in 2009. The show is a culmination of several works that explore movement, time, dislocation and the transformation of objects no longer considered useful. It is split across two venues – The Hold Artspace and Davies Park. The Hold hosts a suite of videos that use a caravan motif to examine darkness with grace, and the Reparation Room – an installation of photographs and documents detailing the artists recent relationship with Bundaberg. Directly across the road, Davies Park will host The Kissing Swans, a 22-foot sculpture made from a flooded caravan.
Chris was born in Invercargill, New Zealand. He grew up in Christchurch and moved to Dunedin in 1996 to attend the Otago School of Art. He moved to Australia in 1999 and completed his training at Griffith University. His work has been exhibited extensively in institutions in Australia including the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Australia Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Adelaide; and The Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. He is the winner of the 2012 Gold Coast Art Prize and the 2013 Swell Sculpture Festival. Chris is currently a sessional lecturer in Fine Art at Griffith University.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
