still water is a new body of work that explores effects on the natural environment due to global warming. The images are created by drawing with a knife and sandpaper onto an inkjet print. At times the nude figures will appear in the image questioning the survival of humanity in sometimes nightmarish landscapes, while other compositions are reminiscent of an oasis that once was.
Simulating hopeful futures through manipulation of landscapes, using famous Dutch artists as a reference point, the exhibition interrogates the actions of industrial human activity. still water renders these actions synonymous with a symbolic Hell, and champions a return to the Divine, not in a religious context, but towards the ultimate divinity of nature.
In conversation
Friday 30 April
5.00 pm
Join curator Laura Brinin and artist Henri van Noordenburg and dig deeper into the themes and techniques of Henri’s practice.
Timothy Fairless
Friday 30 April
6.00 pm
Join us straight after ‘in conversation’ for a compelling music set by Timothy Fairless.
Timothy Fairless is a composer and sound-maker from Meanjin (Brisbane). His work encompasses intersections of traditional musicality with found sounds and field recordings, generative methods, and sound processing schema in investigations of identity, purpose, and position. His work includes sound installations, soundtracks for award-winning short films, solo recordings, video, and performance.
Image: Composition L, Henri van Noordenburg — 2018 – 2020, Hand carved ink on Hahnemühle, 220 x 100 cm
