NCCA - Archived Exhibitions

Rebecca Arbon

Subaqueous Knit

8 Feb - 9 Mar 2013. Opening at 6pm Fri 8 Feb.

A pixel is the smallest controllable element of a digital picture represented on a screen - a stitch is the smallest and controllable element in a knitted work. "The composition of both stitches in a knitting pattern and the pixel composition of digital images are arranged as a grid of squares." Through pixilating images of knitted works, Arbon explores the relationships between the handmade form and the digital image.

Anthony Spry

Made Manifest

8 Feb - 9 Mar 2013. Opening at 6pm Fri 8 Feb.

Spry presents a collection words produced with recycled materials inspired by the 'wabi sabi' aesthetic from Japanese culture that embraces the beauty in 'imperfection' and the 'rawness' of the organic. The works are suggestive of a personal journey, emerging from pop imagery and internalized scribbles - a new aesthetic that lies somewhere between heart and mind.

CORNELIUS DELANEY

Psychic Hairdo

8 Feb - 9 Mar 2013. Opening at 6pm Fri 8 Feb

Zebras and poisonous caterpillars. That stark black and white just don't sit right in the environment—like cane toads and capitalism. There's a golden view to Dripstone Cliffs in the afternoon, set against the urbanization and the industrialization, the ugly-fication, awfulization and cyclone fences. Mountainous clouds in the build-up and the beautiful strangeness of it all. It's the war years and the hits just keep on coming.

IAN HANCE

Wasted and Marginalized

8 Feb - 9 Mar 2013. Opening at 6pm Fri 8 Feb

Depicting the car wreck in the landscape, Hance explores the periphery of Darwin and investigates the concepts of the marginal and the abject. Working on the outskirts of Darwin at Leanyer Swamp, his paintings critique societies' use or misuse of wasteland and un-occupied space. Influenced by Fred Williams, he represents these saline wasteland areas, that have resisted suburban development, with flat slabs of colour and tones. Adopting Australian Gothic techniques, Hance creates a scatological appearance in his paintings that relate to the decomposing and rusty subjects.

REBECCA ARBON

Subaqueous Knit

8 Feb - 9 Mar 2013. Opening at 6pm Fri 8 Feb

A pixel is the smallest controllable element of a digital picture represented on a screen - a stitch is the smallest and controllable element in a knitted work. "The composition of both stitches in a knitting pattern and the pixel composition of digital images are arranged as a grid of squares." Through pixilating images of knitted works, Arbon explores the relationships between the handmade form and the digital image.

ANTHONY SPRY

Made Manifest

8 Feb - 9 Mar 2013. Opening at 6pm Fri 8 Feb

Spry presents a collection words produced with recycled materials inspired by the 'wabi sabi' aesthetic from Japanese culture that embraces the beauty in 'imperfection' and the 'rawness' of the organic. The works are suggestive of a personal journey, emerging from pop imagery and internalized scribbles - a new aesthetic that lies somewhere between heart and mind.