FIGMENTS

December 12-24

& Open by appointment through January

Featuring, HELEN KENNEDY, LISA ROET, DEBORAH WALKER, LISA GORMAN, CHELSEA LEHMANN

Helen Kennedy, Chelsea Lehmann, Lisa Roet & Deborah Walker works all share the common ground of soft, unassuming figments bridging between the real world and their imagination. Each artist holds a unique ability to mould elements of basic human understanding with their individual passions, perceptions and ingenuity.

Kennedy's work is situated at the intersection of light and landscape. Through her work, employing cyanotype processes, water colour and oil painting, Kennedy captures the ecology through fleeting moments of luminance light or corresponding shadow creating tangible works from transient slivers of time. Kennedy's upcoming body of work delves into this relationship between light, landscape and analysing the emotive effect these elements can have on eachother. Working with cyanotypes leaves part of the process to the unknown, dependant on sunlight and weather temperament. Kennedy melds her own methodology with the spontaneity of these elements, situating her process before & after light is involved. There is a particular, delicate sensitivity evoked through her work, her past experience with photography is evident in her indisputable infatuation with light.

Roet & Walker often play with living subject matters, humans, apes and various other extracts to study a particular sense of mystery. Both artists toy with the relationships humans hold to their exterior realms beyond interpersonal relations. Through Roet's jewellery we see the ape wrapping around the individuals fingers, illuminating a commonality between the species, as well as reiterating how humans at our intrinsic level are animals too, a basic concept yet often forgotten in todays age. Aligning similarly in their values is an underlining uncertainty in their works, both artists strip down their works to a particular bareness, honing in grand detail to their selected subject matter whilst removing exterior distractions.

Building upon these surrealist bodies, Lehmann also grapples with bodily form, creating works that repel historical contexts that shape women's identity in art, Lehmann reimagines the female form, building upon layers, she leaves the earlier traces of work visible, reflecting how 21st century construction and identity of the woman is inherently bound to many historical underpinnings of the past. Her works are painted with a harmony of beauty and strength, attesting to female gaze and reshaping the landscape of our bodies in modern day art.