'Another Space considers the in between, an indefinable space both artists navigate and where new meanings emerge'.
Exhibition Statement
The idea for Another Space emerged from a conversation between Brook Morgan and Bronwyn Treacy about their shared fascination with the ambiguous forms and indeterminate spaces that their work similarly invoked. For both artists, this ambiguity of form and space could be defined as a state of inbetweenness, in which things cannot be wholly known or fully understood.
Another Space considers the in between, an indefinable space both artists navigate and where new meanings emerge.
Treacy begins with a direct and tactile experience of a quick and accidental mark making process that combines disparate monotype prints and drawings; collaged to form overlayed and sometimes unassuming playful juxtapositions.
For Treacy, it starts with drawing, then sometimes cutting, arranging and pasting. Not with an idea, but with a mark. An invocation between the hand, the mind and the material. The drawing process, the directness of it, establishes an intensely personal space where unexpected visual thoughts manifest in material. It moves beyond self and intellect to a place that reflects the physiology of an emotional body. An unknown world of play and possibility. Like images in floating tea leaves, accidental apparitions come into being.
Morgan begins with the shapes and forms of shadows cast from naturally occurring materials that grow close to her home. The ink drawings are a semblance of something but moreover serve as a record of the making process. When working outside it involves working quickly to capture the shifting and moving shapes, waiting and watching as shapes form and uniform. Each gesture is responsive to the conditions of light and the elemental conditions of the day.
Indoor shadows create a stillness that allows for a closer observation of the same forms and shapes. There are inaccuracies in the process and initial frustration gives way to a playful exchange of intention and reaction. Accidental apparitions come into being.
The drawing process for both artists exists in the directness of the experience. Drawing describes the process of both establishing marks on paper and revealing shapes and forms discovered in between spaces within the paper. It is this gentle and subtle process of drawing out information that provides the space for the formation of new possibilities.
Another Space is the result of Treacy and Morgan considering the poetics of the inbetweenness that defines each practice. Traversing within this inbetweenness has resulted in additional collaborations using the divergent forms and shapes from both artists: Realising an additional space.
Exhibition Statement
The idea for Another Space emerged from a conversation between Brook Morgan and Bronwyn Treacy about their shared fascination with the ambiguous forms and indeterminate spaces that their work similarly invoked. For both artists, this ambiguity of form and space could be defined as a state of inbetweenness, in which things cannot be wholly known or fully understood.
Another Space considers the in between, an indefinable space both artists navigate and where new meanings emerge.
Treacy begins with a direct and tactile experience of a quick and accidental mark making process that combines disparate monotype prints and drawings; collaged to form overlayed and sometimes unassuming playful juxtapositions.
For Treacy, it starts with drawing, then sometimes cutting, arranging and pasting. Not with an idea, but with a mark. An invocation between the hand, the mind and the material. The drawing process, the directness of it, establishes an intensely personal space where unexpected visual thoughts manifest in material. It moves beyond self and intellect to a place that reflects the physiology of an emotional body. An unknown world of play and possibility. Like images in floating tea leaves, accidental apparitions come into being.
Morgan begins with the shapes and forms of shadows cast from naturally occurring materials that grow close to her home. The ink drawings are a semblance of something but moreover serve as a record of the making process. When working outside it involves working quickly to capture the shifting and moving shapes, waiting and watching as shapes form and uniform. Each gesture is responsive to the conditions of light and the elemental conditions of the day.
Indoor shadows create a stillness that allows for a closer observation of the same forms and shapes. There are inaccuracies in the process and initial frustration gives way to a playful exchange of intention and reaction. Accidental apparitions come into being.
The drawing process for both artists exists in the directness of the experience. Drawing describes the process of both establishing marks on paper and revealing shapes and forms discovered in between spaces within the paper. It is this gentle and subtle process of drawing out information that provides the space for the formation of new possibilities.
Another Space is the result of Treacy and Morgan considering the poetics of the inbetweenness that defines each practice. Traversing within this inbetweenness has resulted in additional collaborations using the divergent forms and shapes from both artists: Realising an additional space.
