DEPART is Onespace Gallery’s final show for 2020. Showing from 11 December 2020 – 30 January 2021, the exhibition straddles the old and new year and provides artists the space to offer meaningful points of departure. All artworks included in DEPART contemplate the same question – How will we begin to respond to this unique year?
As civilization wrestles with its own impermanence, creativity offers a way of being that navigates the uncanny, transcends borders, and provides a tether to alternate worlds. With the luxury of globetrotting not being a present possibility, we look toward the arts to become borderless. Artists within the exhibition reflect on the idea that this year will not ‘conclude’ in the usual way, offering musings on their new trajectories, what they feel and how to even begin reflecting. Revealed within DEPART are tendencies that we, as humans, turn to during times of adversity: seeking reassurance in spirituality due to a distrust in Western democracy; finding small comforts in domestic spaces; using art as a form of escapism; and choosing to be optimistic whilst tentatively moving forward.
Curated by Taylor Hall the exhibition will present work by Ross Booker, Amy Carkeek, Sebastian Di Mauro, Dan Elborne, Tamika Grant-Iramu, James Hornsby, Sebastian Moody, Matthew Newkirk, Thomas Oliver, Zoe Porter and Jackie Ryan.
“DEPART as an exhibition enters the new year with volatile hindsight, tender reflection and a cautious sense of optimism for the future. We have been united by the events of 2020 in our fragility and our resilience, our panic and our calm, our intelligence as well as our abundant stupidity. DEPART places one foot firmly in the past while the other dips its toe tentatively into the future. Artists included within the exhibition provide meaningful points of departure and indicate the vital need for arts reactive capacity.”
Taylor Hall (Curator)
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Tuesday to Friday: 10am – 6pm
Saturday: 11am – 5pm
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Matthew Newkirk
Catalyst x3, 2020
Screenprint on paper
134 x 124cm (overall), Edition of 5
Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery
