Opening Launch: Wednesday 20 November 6-8pm | Exhibition Dates: November 20 - December 7, 2024
Helle Cook
In Light of Everything explores the sensory experience of light, place and belonging in painting and textile installation.
The mobile character of the work illuminates a notion of being carried through time and place, it suspends itself somewhere between Nordic and Australian light and place.
The exhibition follows an ongoing enquiry of taking my practice beyond the studio and into nature. Here, I carefully create ephemeral textile installations before documenting their interaction with the natural elements.
It is an awe-inspiring process which has followed me around the world - it awakens wonder and environmental awareness.
The viewer is invited to touch and immerse into the work – and to venture beyond horizons to a place where light and collective awareness unfolds and embraces - In light of Everything.
Helle Cook is a Danish-Australian artist based in Meanjin/Brisbane. Having lived and worked in and between dual 'homelands' she explores sensory and memory perception in expanded painting.
Holding a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from Queensland College of Art, Helle has had solo and group exhibitions around Australia. She has been artist-in-residence in Australia, Italy and Denmark.
Marcel Feilafe
In 2022 FeillafeĢ exhibited a series of over 50 watercolours in an exhibition titled Journals. These works, through the use of repetition, layering and abstraction explored the capacity for drawing to represent the passing of time. In 2024’s, Journals II, FeillafeĢ launches off from here to further examine how journals and artworks, over time, have the capacity to become vatrines of existence, ones which allow for; observation, investigation, imagination and potentially epiphanies. In these new works the artist will experiment with the potential presented by expanding from the more intimate scale to a much larger and immersive experience.
Patrick Zaia
Fanged, Skinned & Shrieking is concerned with notions of animality and its attendant figurations across history. Comprised of drawings and sculptures, the exhibition draws upon myth, philosophy, art history and online subcultures in order to contemplate the ways in which animality has been used to disrupt and oppose idealised conceptions of modern culture and society. Whether viewed as divine or debased, to become a beast, to will oneself into an animal state, is to voyage into the feral wildernesses beyond the technological polis of enlightened, liberal humanism. In a poetic register, Fanged, Skinned & Shrieking considers how artists and writers of the past have explored the transgressive potential of ‘the human-animal’ so as to recognize its many resonances and manifestations in our present-day culture.
Patrick Zaia is an artist, writer and musician based in Brisbane/ Meanjin, Australia. Ideas around horror, aesthetics, alienation, and the non-human constellate and interconnect throughout his cross-disciplinary practice, forming large-scale installations that are both humorous and unnerving in equal measure. These ideas are further refined and articulated in his writing, which encompasses catalogue essays, articles and reviews. He has exhibited widely throughout Australia and his writing has been published by a number of national and international journals, magazines and galleries.
