Outer Space is launching two new art exhibitions in their freshly renovated West End warehouse: Class Act and Hailey Atkins: What’s Good for You.
CLASS ACT
Dissecting the insidious nature of class issues within Australian society, Class Act brings together works by seven artists whose diverse practices agitate and complicate the ideas which underpin our dominant narratives. Exploring the impacts and signifiers of class, this exhibition aims to provoke dialogue and question assumptions related to the experience and articulation of socio-economic and cultural classes; the values of labour; and the role of artistic production within the broader conversation.
Featuring works by Kay Abude, Gerwyn Davies, Rhiannon Dionysius, Daniel McKewen, Leen Rieth, and Raphaela Rosella, with public program workshops by Llewellyn Millhouse. Essay by Courtney Pedersen. Curated by Lisa Bryan-Brown.
Gerwyn Davies appears courtesy of Jan Murphy Gallery, Daniel McKewen appears courtesy Milani Gallery
WHAT’S GOOD FOR YOU
Hailey Atkins is sculptural artist whose practice focuses on ways of navigating and articulating experiences related to ‘not-knowing’. Through gesture, form and materials her work expresses the sometimes funny, sometimes gloomy, always awkward feelings that result when occupying the in-between spaces of ambivalence, and how this is often felt as failure. Using a combination of anecdotal visual puns and visceral materiality, she seeks to present a relatable, uplifting experience of ‘not-knowing’, self-doubt and never ending existential worrying – an alternate vision of the world occupied by objects that remind us sense doesn’t need to be made of everything.
What’s Good for You, presents and extends upon a body of work created during a 3 month residency at Kaus Australis in Rotterdam (NL), which focussed on exploring and dealing with the discomfort and absurdity surrounding notions of repair, carrying, holding on and leaving behind. Her work ponders questions such as: ‘at what point should you stop trying to make something better and just leave it behind in the bush where you found it?’
Exhibitions Opening: 5th October, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Opening hours: Wednesday – Sunday 10am – 2pm
Image: Kay Abude, Production Line #2, 2010, Digital photograph, 50.2cm x 65.5cm x 3.4cm.
