Ali Noble, Flag for a Secret Society: Hope Conjurors, 2020. Handsewn velveteen, thread, glue, felt and dowling rod. 20cm x 200cm.
OPENING EVENT Wednesday 24 February from 6:00pm at ANCA Gallery. Free to attend, no bookings required.
Supernatural Light Affinity is an exhibition that proposes abstraction, enigmatic symbolism and magical luminescence are legitimate agents for inspiring curiosity and wonder. Yvette Hamilton, Ali Noble, Lisa Sammut and Helen Shelley bring together photography, sculpture, painting, textiles and light projection to materialise works that consider their often unknowable inner and outer worlds. From the unconscious to deep space, ‘not knowing’ is an enchanted terrain to be explored through various materials and idiosyncratic visual languages developed by each artist.
The artists share a collective veneration for their internal and external worlds in Supernatural Light Affinity. These artists are brought together by a desire to harness a sense of the unintelligible and supernatural, through works that consider light, reflectivity, and sensualilty. Their combined artistic chemistry asks that we reinstate the poetic; that inspiring awe is a valid political and personal strategy. It feels unfashionable or naïve to conjure optimism, but perhaps collaboration, cooperation and glitter are a means to resistance and endurance.
For Ali Noble, her textile wall hangings and steel sculptures offer alchemic possibilities: whereby cutting, gluing and construction invite reinvention, renewal, and re-presentation of reality. Ali has exhibited in solo and group exhibtions throughout Australia. In 2020, she was included in a Sydney Morning Herald feature “Innovative textile art smashing its way into our art galleries” by Chloe Wolifson.
Yvette Hamilton works across photomedia, video installation and interactivity. Her interdisciplinary practice creates work that takes an exploratory approach to visuality and presence. Recently she has been a finalist in the Grace Cossington Smith Award, the Paramor Prize, the Josephine Ulrick & Winn Schubert Award, the Fishers Ghost Art Prize, and the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize. She has been the recipient of an Australia Council Artstart grant, and was the Sydney College of the Arts winner of the Dominik Mersch Gallery Award.
Helen Shelley lives and works in Sydney. Shelley graduated from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University with first class honours. In 2015 she graduated from Sydney College of the Arts with a Masters Degree in Painting. She has held solo exhibitions at Grant Pirrie, Flinders Street Gallery, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Galerie pompom and has been included in exhibitions at First Draft Gallery, Casula Powerhouse, Rubicon Ari and James Makin Gallery. Shelley has been a finalist in the Churchie and most recently the Blake Prize. Her mixed media painting practice is concerned with developing personal rituals that bring to mind and honour late loved ones, along with capturing moments of the sublime and transcendental as observed in the everyday.
Lisa Sammut’s practice encompasses sculpture, light, video and installation. She has exhibited widely in Australia, undertaking several recent large-scale projects at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney (2019) and Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth (2019). In 2018, Sammut was a finalist in the John Fries Award, a resident at Parramatta Artist Studios and completed her MFA by Research at UNSW Art & Design. In 2019, Sammut attended studio residency programs in Iceland and France.
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