Curated by Outer Space’s programming committee, ‘Snapshot’ brings together the work of four emerging artists – Holly Anderson, Madeline Bishop, Edwina Green, and Nicholas Tossmann.
Holly Anderson works with painting to explore sensory experiences with light and landscape. In continual reference to the familiar bathers and sunlit subjects of romantic Australian landscape painting, various ways the body might be more strangely involved in these surroundings are tentatively explored. She has exhibited nationally with Firstdraft (Circling the Sun, 2021), Museum of Brisbane (City in the Sun, 2021), Brisbane’s Outdoor Gallery (Sunny Side Up, 2021), Innerspace Contemporary (Bikini Body, 2019), Outerspace Ari (The Oh No Sun, 2018), Metro Arts (Time and place, 2020) and STABLE (Scroll 2019). Her work is held in the collection of Museum of Brisbane.
Madeline Bishop is a photography and video artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Bishop’s work is conceptually centred around relational dynamics. Exploiting the persistent tension between distance and closeness in photographs, Bishop’s work uses a performative and constructed approach to dissecting the relationship between photography and intimacy. Bishop is a Master of Fine Arts graduate with First Class Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne and has been a finalist in a number of prizes, most recently the 2021 Olive Cotton Photography Prize.
Working across installation, film, painting, photography and sculpture, Edwina Green’s practice is informed by her Aboriginal heritage as a Trawlwoolway woman, from North-East Tasmania. Exploring concepts of culture, religion, Indigenous erasure and the post-colonial paradigm and its effects on people and place, Edwina creates narratives that engage, provoke, and question our place within society and our interaction with Indigenous Australia. Growing up between a mining town on the West coast of Tasmania, and Naarm, she explores the environmental damage that is relative to place, an abrupt necessity, alongside questioning institutional Indigenous erasure, Indigenous reclamation of cultural practices, and how blak presence is inherently political. Edwina’s work has been exhibited across Naarm, and internationally.
Nicholas Tossmann’s practice investigates his experience of being a conceptual artist as part of his philosophical search of purpose. He explores these ideas methodically by analysing and questioning his art practice, which involves the process of researching, making and critically reflecting. Text, diagrams and mapping are utilized as a self-reflexive approach to art-making, often taking the form of performance, installation and moving image. Tossmann’s work offers an insight into his oscillating sense of purpose through practice. His work invites a contemplation of the expansive potential of art to question our purpose.
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Image: Edwina Green, SELAH, 2021 (still).
