InsideOUT

When: Tuesday 3 September - Sunday 27 October 2024

Artist Statement

Phenomenal Bodies brings elements of remote Tasmanian wilderness into the urban cityscape. The installation invites viewers to contemplate our relationship to the natural word, larger unseen forces and complex ecologies.

These sculptural forms were largely created from geological forms, cast on-site in the desert-like mountains surrounding Queenstown, on the West Coast of Tasmania. Adorning the rocky surfaces and threaded steel strands are small crystalline forms, created though magnetic forces, that obscure the line between the natural and technological. Levitating electromagnetic orbs, spinning continually through night and day, echo the constant motion of the planet and its molten core, massive gravitational forces that operate alongside relentless extractive technologies and continue to shape our planet.

Artist Biography

Alicia King is an interdisciplinary artist based in the Derwent Valley, Lutruwita/Tasmania. Her art practice is driven by a fascination with natural phenomena and the re-thinking and re-working of our relationship with the non-human world. Through an experimental approach to materials and processes, King creates new representations of the natural environment that explore the intersections of nature, technology and the sublime, ideas of deep ecological time and cultural mythologies of the future.

When: June - July 2024

Artist Statement

Hardwood frames, archival inkjet prints, single channel projection. The Dorney House - Fort Nelson c1978, by architect J.H. Esmond Dorney - is widely regarded as one of Australia's best houses. It is a humble modernist masterpiece. Significantly, the house was recently awarded international recognition by Doco MoMo, a body recognising important modernist architecture globally. In September 2023, Andy Hatton was commissioned by Paddy Dorney (son of Esmond) to begin documenting the house, it's light, energy and environment.

PRESENT documents the feeling of dawn through to sunrise, the fall of dusk as the full moon rises. Hatton explores a deep connection to the environment that envelops this house, with subtle moments of transition, when the outside comes in, finding poetry held in all of its expansive glass.

Each moment feels significant, while collectively hinting at a larger, more elusive vision.

Artist Biography

Andy is a Manchester-born Photographer, Director and Cinematographer, based in Lutruwita/Tasmania. With a background in fine art photography, he brings a cinematic approach to his visual storytelling. His personal style crosses genres, from documentary and travel, to editorial and portraiture. He finds magic in subtlety, creating atmospheric imagery with a focus on a poetic narrative. His diverse portfolio includes collaborations with Mercedes Benz, Olympus, National Geographic and Apple.

When: March - April 2024

Artist Statement

The now extinct, Cascade Funnel-Web was located on Muwinina land and Palawa people would have deeply understood the habitat and behaviour of this endemic arachnid. There is little documented evidence of the Cascade Funnel-Web. It was recorded by Vernon Victor Hickman in 1926 and has not been sighted since. Hickman found two spider burrows in the soft bank of a creek at Cascades. He sketched a spider, eggs and a silken funnel web.

In this family-friendly performance, watch the last remaining Cascade Funnel Web weave his home; hoping to catch food or perhaps it's a lonely attempt to attract a mate.

Artist biography

Matthew Stolp is an Arts Educator, Actor, Character Performer, Screenwriter, and Visual Artist with over thirty years' experience in the creative arts. He is a Senior Secondary Art and Drama teacher and Head of Faculty for the Arts at Guilford Young College. Matthew has worked professionally for Blue Cow Theatre, the Tasmanian Theatre company, MONA, SBS and the ABC. He is the recipient of several awards for his creative work including two Tasmanian Theatre Awards for performance and design.