Opening: Friday 13 January 6-8pm
Vincent Taylor
FRONT GALLERY
The Mesmerist
The Mesmerist is a series of photographic portraits examining individuals hypnotised by a familiar friend, a piece of glass that preaches with electrons and liquid crystals – The vampiric television. Inspired by the work of Francis Bacon and a lifetime love and hate relationship with television, these portraits have been taken from a television’s perspective and so that the viewer becomes the viewed.
Vincent Taylor has been an active member of the film and television industry for sixteen years. He graduated from the Victorian College of the arts with a degree in Film and television and trained as a cinematographer, stills photographer and colourist.
Elizabeth Pedler
MIDDLE GALLERY
Tautology
Wires, at first threatening to garotte the viewer, turn out to be the strings of a large instrument, inviting touch and playful interaction.
Composed of little more than wire and an amplifier, Tautology uses simple means to create an interactive sound art installation.
Viewers of all ages are able to play the instrument, encouraging an awareness of how they inhabit and engage with the space.
Tautology rewards active and critical engagement, and aims to promote participation amongst viewers.
Elizabeth Pedler completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, at the University of Western Australia in 2010. She has been commissioned to create installations for the Melbourne Fringe Festival and The Gathering by Harvest, producing kinetic and interactive artworks.
Pete Warden
SIDE GALLERY
Pneumatic Chants
Pete Warden makes things out of sticks and rubbish and paints them. The things he builds mimic and describe a variety of phenomena. Respiratory systems shuddering and creaking, small engines built from blades of grass coughing up mossy exhaust, fish fisted clay, vegetable grocers, enormous wheezing soap carved from brittle cloud sediment… His fragile, awkward artefacts endeavour to be a key to the sublime, but often remain simply a document of brawling with it. They are sketches of the mind reeling as it pulls at the threads of reality around it. These gathered threads are sewn and woven into the the objects around them. Ghostly forms spark from the connections. They are quickly, clumsily, yet respectfully documented by the physical body. The diagrams are schematics of the crude frameworks upon which they are mounted…
Pete hopes that his works will form a conversation between amateur/artisan or dilettante/professional elements within a single person. But he is also comfortable with the fact that he may have just made motorised rubbish.
