Tom Campbell, fast track oceania, 2021. Single channel video still.
OPENING EVENT: Wednesday 2 March from 6:00pm at ANCA Gallery. Free to attend, no bookings required.
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it takes a certain form of swagger to throw a punch, forming the f shape with your mouth but the lessons each week actually show you more about conditioning muscle memory talks about the journey from exaggeration to assimilation
each night you sit down and engage memories of breaking the needle but this time the tension is correct and the sensation is one of fabric gliding through machine something about becoming a cyborg
but really this show is about quilting together a persona or a memorial or some kind of transmutation this show is about bodily relations to scale, movement, a smiling face this show is about pulling up your weight in line with the moon
no really, this show is actually about quilts
Tom Campbell is an emerging artist of Kadazan-Australian descent working on Ngunnawal/Ngunawal/Ngambri land. His work is motivated by the voice as a tool across gossip, conversation, humour and persuasion, and in this exhibition takes shape across textiles, writing and video performance. Tom graduated with Honours from the ANU Painting workshop and was selected to show at Canberra Museum and Gallery as part of the Emerging Artist Support Scheme showcase. He recently took part in You Are Here’s Cahoots development program. Tom works in fundraising and advocacy with Community Shapers and is a current studio tenant at the ANCA Mitchell campus, as well as being ANCA’s deputy Board chair. Did I get it all in? (rodomontade)