About Nothing brings together the practices of Natalie Lavelle and Pippa Makgill. In this exhibition, Natalie’s assertive and vast canvases alongside Pippa’s precarious structures attempt to represent the formless or the presence of ‘nothing’. Sitting on this threshold of almost nothing offers grounds of possibilities and prompts a kind of self-awareness in the here and now.
The emphasis on movement in their works through gestural applications and spatial considerations direct attention to the artist’s bodies in making the work. The viewer’s navigation of the works is also carefully observed. Here Natalie and Pippa’s works underline touch, motility, and change, infusing a matter-of-fact vocabulary with a richness and persistence of human sensuality and impulsiveness.
In following the sense of bodies and underscoring the idea of ‘nothing’, About Nothing contemplates the depths and complexities of reason and meaning. The works accentuate the need to explain or describe in order to assign logic and understanding. Instead, Natalie and Pippa’s works encourage uncertainty, challenge expectations and leave space for interpretation.
ARTIST TALK + OFFICIAL OPENING EVENT | Saturday 10 August 3-6pm
Join us at 3pm to hear from artists Natalie Lavelle and Pippa Makgill in-conversation with co-director Sharna Barker. The official opening event will follow from 4-6pm.
GALLERY HOURS
Friday 9 August 10-2pm
Saturday 10 August 11-3pm
Sunday 11 August 10-12pm
IN artist run initiative, at The Old Lock Up, 4 First Avenue, Maroochydore, QLD.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This project is part of our 2024 INSITE Destabilise Program and is supported through the Creative Industries Investment Program and is jointly funded by Sunshine Coast Council’s Arts and Heritage Levy and the Regional Arts Development Fund in partnership with the Queensland Government.
Image: Natalie Lavelle, Untitled (Ochre, Iron Oxide and Gold), 2023, acrylic on Italian linen, 220cm x 95cm x 20cm. Photo by Louis Lim; Pippa Makgill, installation detail at Studio 26 ‘artist in session’, 2023, photo by Pippa Makgill. Images courtesy of the artists.
