RECENT Exhibitions

Paper is such a commonplace and pervasive material. We write on it, read it, drink out of it and eat off it, yet in terms of conservation it is considered one of the most fragile of mediums in the art world.

This exhibition is ostensibly concerned with the nature of paper itself; featuring works produced with paper or about paper. Artists include Sally Blake, Chris Bold, Tammie Castles, Bianca Chang, Robin Clare, Tracey Clement, Jan Davis (courtesy grahame galleries + editions), Fiona Edmeades, Todd Fuller, Nicci Haynes, Kaori Kato (courtesy Utopia Art Sydney), Hyun Hee Lee (courtesy Artereal Gallery), Melinda Le Guay, Trudy Moore, Helen Mueller, Al Munro, Mylyn Nguyen, Janet Parker-Smith, Sandra Pitkin, Jenny Pollak, Rochelle Summerfield, Kylie Stillman (courtesy Utopia Art Sydney) and Kayo Yokoyama.

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A sense of identity is grounded in our individual experiences that makes our own storytelling unique and also familiar. The cautionary tales that pervade everyday life are often ritualised into the cultural use of domestic objects, helping to construct collective and personal identities. Throughout this exhibition, the act of subverting such familiar ideas and items to reveal a sense of threat or violence is explored as a way of transforming and appropriating the familiar into fantasy, making visible the myths we live by.

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Fantastic worlds and mystical dreamscapes enact the absurdity of human existence in my porcelain works, encaustic panels and prints. The works in this exhibition combine primordial plant forms such as yuccas, agaves and cacti, with fanciful figures and imagined landscapes. Magicians signal a quest, fantastic creatures interact and medieval monsters are guardians of future possibilities.

Inhabiting these small works are creatures from the Renaissance historia animalium of Conrad Gesner, humorous figures from 16th century French humanist and artist François Rabelais, contemporary Japanese ‘kawaii’, pop-imagination figures and toys and grotesque historical imagery. This cast of creatures and plants is combined to create various peculiar and curious scenarios. My characters live in a world where nothing is certain.

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I feel like everything I want to say is written in the lines and planes of each piece. The repetitive physical process of carving translates my decisions and ideas into a subtle language, inherent in the finished form.

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I found a stand of melaleuca clinging to the rocks along a wild stretch of beach on the north coast of NSW; branches twisted and deformed by an unforgiving wind; desiccated and brittle for want of water. Dead now, these trees bear witness to a life - like many other lives - on the edge, and a struggle to survive in less than ideal circumstances.

This melaleuca forest formed the starting point for the woodblock prints in this exhibition. In the working process I discovered that struggle can result in rich complexity, in elegance and grace.

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By the mid naughties a prevailing coyness and conservatism begin to settle amongst photographic images (re)presenting the male nude.

#atwar sifts and presents personal wars, cultural wars, militarised wars and the history wars to map a collusion of ideas where men are firmly at the centre.

Josh Raymond, 2013

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