Image: Steve Wilson, courtesy of the artist

Tom Moore: Agents of Incongruity

June 18th - July 5th (Monday-Friday, 11AM-5PM)

Launch: Thursday June 20th, 5PM-7PM 

"This exhibition is the result of practice-led research utilising specialized glassmaking techniques to produce objects exploring the themes of nonsense, monsters, wonder and dread ... This research proposes that glass is imbued with unique associations that may be particularly appropriate for responding to the troubled terrain of the Anthropocene. Glass-making is considered as a process of creating value through the skilful transformation of natural recourses, epitomised by luxury objects utilising finely detailed decorative techniques. Atmospheric pollution generated in the course of the research has been calculated and generously offset, in an attempt to reconcile the personal dilemma of continuing to practise a pyrotechnic craft in an age of global warming." more

 Image courtesy the artist

Daniel Connell: Encounter and Obligation

July 19 - August 7 (Monday-Friday, 11AM-5PM)

Launch: Friday July 19, 5-7PM

This summary exhibition is the result of practice-led research into portraiture as a contemporary art practice. It traces the progress of portraits moving off the wall and into the socially-engaged sphere by looking at the internal mechanisms of a portrait and extrapolating. Portraiture has a colonial heritage in capturing and fixing an other identity, and this needs to be challenged because identity is also both fluid and reflexive.

These multiple bodies of work seek an alternative model for representation. Can representation be necessary and needed? Can it be advocacy? Can it force a stance in solidarity, be a space of hospitality and question the self and narcissism that is too often at the core of identity politics?

The representation in these portraits talks of opportunities for partnership, aware of associated awkwardness and imbalance, but aiming to break down the toxicity of a multiculturalism which has become a landscape of sealed silos. This work emanates from India and Australia – featuring recent migrant communities and relationships across many countries.

This exhibition will include a free weekly cover letter and CV writing workshop for new migrants with SAPNAM (South Australian Professional Networking Association for Migrants).