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These Days
6 March - 28 March, 2020
Curated by Sebastian Goldspink
CATHERINE CLAYTON-SMITH, EMILY GALICEK, ZARA JUNE WILLIAMS,JASPER KNIGHT, JACK LANAGAN DUNBAR, TANYA LINNEY, ELYSS MCCLEARY,MARILYN SCHNIEDER, LAURA, SKERLJ, ELENA ORTEGA TOLOSANA,JULIA TRYBALA, BRADLEY VINCENT
These Days is a group exhibition focused on painting that is juxtaposed with archival Video 8 elements. When I was 13 my family purchased a Sony Video 8
Camcorder to document our holidays.
I took to the new technology and began using it to document daily life as opposed to just travel. Through using this device I made my first explorations
in composition, colour and making meaning through images. Watching the hours of archival footage back I saw how much my 13-year-old self struggled
with the technology. I remember inviting my friends to watch this seemingly incoherent footage. Footage that was only unified by the fact that it purely
represented my eye. What I was personally interested in even if I struggled to articulate why.
Painting is about lots of things but perhaps fundamentally it is about problems. It takes a very specific mindset to grapple with all the physical and conceptual rigours required to render an idea visually. This exhibition brings
together a seemingly disparate group of young Australian painters who are united in their passion for embracing the challenges of painting, of working through the problems. Painting is a great game that is ultimately between
the artist and the surface. As a curator, I work with images and artists concurrently. I am fundamentally interested in artists’ relationship to their
work. I am captivated by being given insight into these conceptual battles or the ever-present wrestling with materials that occupy and propel artists.
This exhibition is idiosyncratic. It’s a selection that is based on threads and connections between artists. These Days looks at what is happening now
but also what has passed. It is a screening. Lights on. My hand fumbles with cables on the back of the television. The screen pops and the footage fades
into view. Lights out.
– Sebastian Goldspink
Elyss McClearyBehind Eyelids with Music,green rainbow pulser split, 2020oil on linen107.5 x 122 cm42 5/16 x 48 inches
Elyss McClearyBehind Eyelids with Music,aluminum silver stains by us, 2020oil on linen122 x 107.5 cm48 x 42 5/16 inches
Julia TrybalaSleeping Child, 2019oil on canvas107 x 122 cm42 x 48 inches
Tanya LinneyAfter Dinner Mint, 2020household paint, tablecloth, unprimed canvas, linen perspex and wooden stretcher bars on canvas102 x 122 cm40 1/8 x 48 inches
Tanya LinneyXerox Hermit, 2020acrylic and beach towel on canvas37 x 47 cm14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches
Tanya LinneyTwo peas, 2020acrylic, enamel and velvet on canvas37 x 47 cm14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches
Tanya LinneySemantic Algebra, 2020acrylic, enamel and curtain remnants on linen37 x 47 cm14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches
Tanya LinneyTwins, 2020acrylic, beach towel and gel medium on canvas37 x 47 cm14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches
Tanya LinneyExpanded painting (Domestic), 2020chair, acrylic, enamel, material and netDimensions Variable
Bradley VincentI watched the sun rise in the rear window of his car, 2020acrylic and ink on silk40 x 30 cm15 3/4 x 11 13/16 inches
Bradley Vincent(Swim out) to the shark net in your home town, 2019acrylic and ink on silk40 x 30 cm15 3/4 x 11 13/16 inches
Bradley VincentTerrazzo, 2020acrylic and ink on silk54 x 42 cm21 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches
Bradley VincentA road sign in a bushfire sunset,last September, 2019acrylic and ink on silk46 x 54 cm18 3/32 x 21 1/4 inches
Jasper KnightMarked Painting No.1, 2016enamel, acrylic, perspex and aluminum on board60 x 55 cm23 5/8 x 21 5/8 inches
Jack Lanagan Dunbar & Zara June WilliamsUntitled, 2018acrylic, oil, copper, pencil, board69 x 65 cm27 x 25 inches
Marilyn Schneider148-8PLC-A/90005803, 2019gouache on stretched canvas70 x 50 cm27 9/16 x 19 11/16 inches
Marilyn SchneiderVisual Comfort & Co, 2019gouache on stretched canvas70 x 50 cm27 9/16 x 19 11/16 inches
Marilyn SchneiderPrawn Cocktail, 2019gouache on stretched canvas70 x 50 cm27 9/16 x 19 11/16 inches
Emily GalicekWhat Do U Want For Breakfast, 2019acrylic on canvas122 x 92 cm48 x 36 7/32 inches
Elena Ortega TolosanaLittle Wallet, 2019oil on canvas51.4 x 61.5 cm20 7/32 x 24 7/32 inches
Elena Ortega TolosanaReach, 2019oil on canvas48.6 x 64.2 cm19 1/8 x 25 9/32 inches
Laura SkerljNecklace I, 2020oil on paper59 x 79 cm23 7/32 x 31 3/32 inches
Laura SkerljNecklace II, 2020oil on paper59 x 79 cm23 7/32 x 31 3/32 inches
Catherine Clayton-SmithSleep Pattern (4), 2019acrylic on canvas66 x 66 cm26 x 26 inches
Catherine Clayton-SmithSleep Pattern (3), 2019acrylic on canvas31 x 31 cm12 3/16 x 12 3/16 inches
Catherine Clayton-SmithSleep Pattern (2), 2019acrylic on canvas31 x 31 cm12 3/16 x 12 3/16 inches
