Tides
2016
Installation unit (neon work), 2016
antique 12-gauge double barrel shotgun, glass neon tubing
55 x 6 x 156cm
Installation units (floor), 2016
Ozito power tools, epoxy resin, polyester resin, 2pac automotive paint
dimensions variable
photo credit: Pia Jonhson
Installation unit (neon work), detail, 2016
antique 12-gauge double barrel shotgun, glass neon tubing
55 x 6 x 156cm
photo credit: Pia Johnson
Installation unit (neon work), 2016
antique 12-gauge double barrel shotgun, glass neon tubing
55 x 6 x 156cm
Installation units (floor), 2016
Ozito power tools, epoxy resin, polyester resin, 2pac automotive paint
dimensions variable
photo credit: Pia Jonhson
Installation units (floor), detail, 2016
Ozito power tools, epoxy resin, polyester resin, 2pac automotive paint
dimensions variable
photo credit: Pia Jonhson
Installation unit (neon work), 2016
antique 12-gauge double barrel shotgun, glass neon tubing
55 x 6 x 156cm
photo credit: Pia Jonhson
Installation units (floor), detail, 2016
Ozito power tools, epoxy resin, polyester resin, 2pac automotive paint
dimensions variable
photo credit: Pia Jonhson
Installation unit (neon work), 2016
antique 12-gauge double barrel shotgun, glass neon tubing
55 x 6 x 156cm
Installation units (floor), 2016
Ozito power tools, epoxy resin, polyester resin, 2pac automotive paint
dimensions variable
photo credit: Pia Jonhson
Swarm, detail, 2016
Watercolour on Arches paper
dimensions variable (paper size: 29 x 42cm)
photo credit: Pia Jonhson
Swarm, detail, 2016
Watercolour on Arches paper
dimensions variable (paper size: 29 x 42cm)
photo credit: Pia Jonhson
Tides
2016
solo exhibition, 2016, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton
Tides is an installation in two parts with the first, entitled Swarm, inhabiting the Stockroom Gallery foyer. Comprising a series of watercolour clouds rendered cartoon-style in candy pink, this cluster hovers in orderly parallel rows somehow at odds with the scatter-gun approach of their execution. Swarm also plays with the duality created through using 2D paper imagery in a sculptural process, extended by volume, light, shadow – and unexpected menace.
Stockroom Galleries main space shelters part two, Exodus, a group of amoebic Ozito power tools fleeing the neon blast from a shotgun. Like some David Cronenberg-inspired nightmare that is both laughable and disturbing, these mutated blobs resemble robotic snails, spurring questions more than answers. Does the vacuous shotgun speech-bubble play only to pop cultural sensibilities, or does it signal the launch of these hybrid creatures into our unsuspecting lives?
Photo credit - Pia Johnson