The Hold Artspace warmly invites you to the opening of three concurrent exhibitions on Friday the 17th of October from 6-9pm and the artist talk for Kate McKay and Angelica Roache Wilson on Thursday, 23rd October 6-7pm.
The View from Here | Kate McKay and Angelica Roache Wilson
The View from Here is an exhibition about the process of slowing down and reflecting upon the constructed and civilised world in which we live. Kate McKay and Angelica Roache Wilson explore through their paintings real and imagined landscapes inspired by their experience of urban living.
Artist talk: Thursday, 23rd October 6-7pm
BELT | Laini Burton
BELT gives form to the notion that life is a state of continual evolution and expansion, and proposes that we exist along a cosmic belt. By fate or by choice, we find ourselves experiencing limitations that are at times beyond our capacity to overcome. At the same time, these limitations can become the very source of our being in the world, even as they split us in two, into sometimes-irreconcilable states of desire and reality. This installation takes inspiration from Davida Allen’s text The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood, and reflects upon competing roles that Burton herself occupies.
Enchanted Forest | Ann Russell
Ann Russell works with liminal spaces caught just outside ‘real’ existence, seen and simultaneously unseen. Her works are depictions of these spaces, often based on Surreal narratives using mixd media in a bricolage form; combining elements and symbols that retain some of their meaning from our world, juxtaposed with new meaning in the worlds Russell creates. Within the possibilities of these other worlds Russell aims to investigate transcendence, sacredness, memory, time and space. Russell tries to undo our understanding of the world and our existence in it as linear and rational; creating not just depictions of other worlds, but also ‘thinning the veil’ by creating portals through which the audience can move to these other places and dimensions.
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Exhibition Dates: 15th – 25th October 2014
For more information contact: info@theholdartspace.com
Image: Kate McKay, Seikii, 2014, oil on linen.
