Eloise Kirk, Dark Maria, 2019. Plaster, wood, resin and collage. 60 x 90 x 40 mm.
OPENING EVENT Wednesday 7 April from 6:00pm at ANCA Gallery. Free to attend, no bookings required.
‘Unthinkable Fields’ cumulates the works of Katy B Plummer, Eloise Kirk, Lauren Brincat, Sarah Mosca, Clare Thackway and Lottie Consalvo. Working across a variety of mediums including performance, installation, photography and painting this exhibition will aim to straddle the periphery between the non-human world and domestic landscapes, seeking to form uncanny pathways between the artists various interpretations of the monumental and the miniature, memory and space, personal histories and accumulated narratives in relation to the world outside and beyond us.
Through gesture and materiality this group of artists will contemplate the relationship between the precious, the precarious and the unfamiliar. Navigating both a deeply personal and collective understanding of the outside world through the exploration of materials, gestures and objects-both hard and soft, the paths we tread both close to home and in unfamiliar territory as well as the forms we surround ourselves with and shroud ourselves in.
The exhibition will explore and develop a shifting conversation between the constructed object, representation and the fluidity of space, the mysterious relationship between geography and the imagination, the personal interactions with the world around us and without us.
Katy B Plummer (she/her) is an artist living and working on stolen land intersecting Garigal to the north, Darramurragal to the west and Gayamaygal to the South. She has a BFA from UNSW and and MFA from the School of Visual Art in New York. She is interested in ghosts, cinematic storytelling, anachronistic textile practices and high school theatre aesthetics.
Eloise Kirk (she/her) is an artist living and working in Nipaluna, Lutruwita (Hobart, Tasmania) She completed an MFA at Sydney College of the Arts in 2013 and exhibits regularly in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney. She is represented by Gallery 9, in Darlinghurst.
Lauren Brincat completed a Master of Visual Arts at the Sydney College of the Arts in 2006. She was awarded the Australia Council for the Arts Emerging Artist Creative Australia Fellowship in 2012-2014 and the Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship in 2009. Brincat has exhibited widely across Australia.
Sarah Mosca lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Drawn to epic and historical tales recounting human will, sorrow and optimism her practice responds to both theoretical texts and pursuits of optimism.
Clare Thackway, born 1984 Canberra (Aus), Lives and works between Sydney (Aus) and Paris (Fr) Thackway is interested in the ways we perform and move our bodies through spaces both literal and emotional. Thackway holds a Bachelor of Arts – Visual Painting from the Australian National University and in 2006 she graduated from the National Art School Sydney with Honours in Fine Art Painting.
Lottie Consalvo is a Melbourne-born, Newcastle-based artist whose practice traverses painting, performance, video and sculpture. She creates commanding, gestural works that explore psychological shifts and ideas surrounding longing, desire and the unknown.
Katy B Plummer | Eloise Kirk | Lauren Brincat | Sarah Mosca | Clare Thackway | Lottie Consalvo