FRAGMENTS’
An exhibition by Lilly Skipper, Hannah Rose, Tahlia McCuskey and Eliza Cullen
“The Fragments exhibition brings together a group of four emerging Victorian College of the Arts artists based in Melbourne/Naarm.
Lilly Skipper is a conceptual artist whose work contemplates the unresolved image and intangibility of form. Through acts of documentation and re-contextualization, Lilly’s obscure shapes and dematerialisation of the discarded object seek to both adhere and disrupt space. Encounters with her intangible objects or ‘anti-forms’ defend perceptions of process-art as the art piece itself.
Tahlia McCuskey is a painter whose work explores the way nature is seen as separate from civilization. Through the use of layered and contrasting imagery, her paintings center on the home and aim to understand how this disconnect presents itself in housing and lifestyle as well as in land management and environmental issues within Australia.
Hannah Rose is a painter and printmaker working and studying at VCA. Themes of the taboo and ideas about disgust and repulsion are commonly seen and disguised in her work through colourful and sometimes challenging imagery. Encouraging discourse, the question is raised: What is truly the difference between the inviting and the uninviting within aesthetic value in art?
Eliza Cullen is a painter whose work touches on spiritual mediumship and intuitive mark making. Her work fosters a space of inward reflection and empathy, merging elusive forms and colour harmonisation. Themes of rebirth, destruction and emergence flow through the works, inviting the viewer into a place of catharsis.”
“The concept of ‘Fragmentation’ can be applied to both the curatorial layout, The Old Bar building and the individual artists. The collection of works seek to ‘reclaim’ the gallery space in contemplation of ways of seeing in response to transformation of space and material arrangement. Similarly, all four artist’s works inevitably reveal their individual, isolative responses and interchangeable, materialistic processes of art making during the context of 2020, along with their artistic maturation since [2020]. The inability to predict or speculate happenings coincides with the nature of division versus unity. Ultimately, the unification of varying practices interrogates the desire to seek parallel affinity and coherency as a repercussion of unpredictability. Featured work portrays diversity in medium and scale, revealing a fragmentation of space and material arrangement.”
Joining the artists on opening night are bands Small Ta!k and Oakley Boyd!
Doors at 7pm
Bands from 8pm
$15 entry fee
This event is sponsored by our friends and supporters of the arts, @Bodriggy Brewing company. The exhibition will be open 3pm – 8pm every day until until January 24.
The Old Bar Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which The Old Bar resides. The gallery pays its respect to Elders past, present and emerging and acknowledges that sovereignty has never been ceded.