Double Opening: Anya Swan / Tim Woodward

Outer Space acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Meanjin and their continued sovereignty over the land on which this project is carried out

Please Join us on April 5th from 6pm for the opening of Scrub by Anya Swan and Silent Aspiration by Tim Woodward

Exhibition dates: 5 – 18 April 2019 (Thurs-Sun 10am-2pm, Wed by appointment)

Scrub,
Anya Swan

Anya Swan’s pictorial and sculptural practice uses hand made materials, strict methodologies, and emotive figuration, as tools for understanding and navigating being in the world. Scrub is a new large-scale sculptural installation that negotiates a crisis of art making – is the environmental cost of production, in the service of art, justifiable? Process-driven methods, and a set of self-defined rules on materiality, guide Anya in the consideration of this question’s complexities. Rethinking and reframing art practice, Scrub presents a durational transformation, imagining a new life for the art object.

Accompanying text by Sarah Poulgrain

Silent Aspiration,
Tim Woodward

The show is
– a decorative panel substrate offering improved acoustic performance. It also im- proves speech intelligibility, concentration and wellbeing. It is thermal insulating and flame retardant.
* – an aluminium lung of normal distribution. It is the lung of card carrying profession- als, each a relic of the expertise age, each embracing a respiratory disruption. * – a blouse button, a fish bone, a match, saliva, nuts, nuts, nuts, a lozenge, a grape. There are more things too. All of them are silent. All of them where they shouldn’t be.
* – a person who will deliver food for one year while teaching themselves to draw. They will soon be a tattoo artist or a writer or something else. They have already earned enough to pay rent this month. They sold a rare knife on gumtree.com.au.

The exhibition Silent Aspiration takes the human subject as an actively entangled agent, a body manoeuvring through the service economies and material cultures of Late Stage Capitalism. Following from his recent exhibition TV Insides at Sarah Scout Presents, for Outer Space, Tim Woodward presents new video and sculptural works that further consider the mystification of interiority and the body as a liminal threshold of the consuming self.

Woodward has a fondness for absurd logic and irrational leaps. His gestures extend from the lineages of conceptual art and a faith in the unrestrained potential of imagination.

Tim is a current MFA research candidate at Monash University, Melbourne. He is represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.

Accompanying text by Debris Facility

Outer Space is proudly supported by Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.

Image: Scrub (detail), handmade paper, grass and ground layer plant seed, milk paint, steel. Courtesy of Anya Swan