Perched high above the city streets, Floating above shadows, moored beneath clouds is a pop-up garden of sculpture, light and performance. This collection of strange and temporary works explores the interstitial space occupied by the city skyline; between the structured ground-level landscape and the open skies above.
Transcending the bustle and debris of the streets, yet still tethered to the city’s infrastructure, the garden exists in a kind of half-space, its loftiness somewhat humbled by the neighbouring skyscrapers that tower above it.
Floating above shadows, moored beneath clouds explores themes of weight and weightlessness, light, instability, precariousness, groundedness, transcendence and materiality. The works themselves are at once humble and grandiose: modest monuments that hint at infinite possibility yet possess an innate impotence, a failure to escape their intermediary environment.
Here exists another world, one unknown to the people below and the deities above. Nestled inside the skyline, hidden, this world offers a sense of calm and tranquility, but also of anticipation, of possibility, freedom, and of the fantastic. Anything could happen up here.
Curated by Meg Hale.
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Artist/s:
Kay Abude, Sam George, Michael Georgetti, Tegan Lewis, Andrew Liversidge, Amy & Claire Spiers, Paul Wotherspoon
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About the artist/s:
Kay Abude is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Art (by research) at the Victorian College of the Arts and Music, The University of Melbourne. Her practice explores art as a form of work.
Sam George:
- finished a BFA (Painting) @ VCA in 2007
- likes making things alone—shown solo and in group shows at TCB art inc, Counihan Gallery, Platform, HELL, Place Gallery, Peloton (Sydney), under ground carparks and so on and so forth)
- likes making things in couples—bcmp, with Ace Wagstaff (forms of deceit, Counihan Gallery 2008), lisam, with Lisa Radford (dot,dot,dot HELL Gallery 2009 and Peloton, Sydney, 2010)
- likes to make things in a group—damp, member since February 2009 (NORTHLANDS LaTrobe Museum of Art 2009, APT6 QAG 2009-10)
- recently enjoying writing (MAGAZINE, for Greatest Hits, TCB art inc. 2009, ToonaParstaBongMyst with Simon Mcglinn, West Space 2009)
- also likes lots of other things
- hopes you’re having a great day!
Michael Georgetti completed a Master of Fine Arts at RMIT in 2007. Michael has shown work in solo and group shows at Trocadero, Kings ARI, Blindside, Bus Gallery, Kozminsky, Anna Pappas Gallery and West Space. He is represented by Anna Pappas Gallery.
Tegan Lewis is embarking upon a Master of Fine Arts (by research) at Monash University. She is an emerging visual artist living in Melbourne. Her practice concerns the materiality of trace, currently investigated through drawing, sculpture, analogue photography and camera obscura environments. Tegan has recently exhibited with Light Projects (2010) and Platform (2010).
Andrew Liversidge lives and works in Melbourne.
Amy Spiers is a Melbourne-based artist interested in social and participatory art. Her art projects have included a photo booth for strangers, an artist-run travel service and a handkerchief exchange. To find out more visit www.agentsofproximity.org and amyspiers.tumblr.com.
Claire Spiers is currently blowing through Melbourne but calls Edinburgh home. She makes coffee and excuses for not making art or poems. When she stops blowing through, she intends to make text based works and use the whole colour spectrum.
Paul Wotherspoon studied at the Australian National University and Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts Paris. He has participated in a number of group/solo shows nationally and internationally. Paul currently resides in Melbourne and operates RearView gallery and studios.
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