Opening at Bus on 17 March 2009!

Zoe MacDonell – Ecstatic Shadow

Main Gallery

Ecstatic Shadow consists of a new media film work and a large oil painting. Both are complementary pieces, documenting the same imagery construct of light and shadow. The projected film explores a passage of gently dynamic shadow movements, while the painting renders the same relationship between light and dark as an isolated moment in time. Across the gallery space these pieces mirror each other.

My work deals with reality, in particular our understanding of landscape, both personal and physical. This work explores the relationship that we have to our surrounds and investigates the nature of reality and layers of perception.

Debbie Pridmore – Before
Skinny Space

Memory, time, and perception are reoccurring themes within my work, their import relating to the integral role they play in my concept of how we experience the world.

Any given moment is the total sum of the past that precedes it, the present moment, and the future it will impact. Our experiences, and the way in which we negotiate the world, are a perpetual force with no beginning and no end. Everything we do is informed by prior events and managed according to anticipated outcomes.

When attempting to communicate our experiences we must choose a beginning point and decide on an end, often employing  recognisable structures to describe this boundless phenomena, that of memory and experience. While the painted works have no narrative content, I want to suggest the problematic nature of defining these moments in time.

I hope to impart a tension between recognition and obscurity, for the transition between one object and another to defy absolute detection.  Subject and ground tend to bleed into each other and, primarily, the works read as shifts between light and dark.

The subject used to illustrate these themes is light. Light is the means by which we are able to view the world yet it also has the ability to render something visually incomprehensible.

Clare Rae – The Rise and Fall
Sound Gallery

The Rise and Fall is a video work made up of photographic stills, depicting the artist rotating in a circle in mid air. The video is looped, the subject remains locked in an endless cycle, both trepidatious and exultant through each revolution.

Considering notions of the woman in the Australian landscape, The Rise and Fall deals with ideas surrounding contemporary feminism and femininity, whilst investigating the relationships between gender, staging and performance.