“Giving away something that is free”
Jessie Bullivant
17 May → 8 June 2013
Jessie Bullivant will investigate the relationship between the size of an action and it’s weight by employing space in a high volume daily publication. During the exhibition, West Space will be an access point for this work and will also host other analogous gestures.
Jessie Bullivant graduated from a Bachelor of Fine Art (Drawing), RMIT, 2011. Recent projects include Interpreting Variable Arrangements, SUPERMARKET (Stockholm), 2013; Start, (curated by Julia Powles) Blindside, 2012; Common Room, Rear View, 2012, Energetic Discipline (with Susan Jacobs) First Site Gallery, 2012; We Are That Within Which We Operate, Kings ARI, 2012; Lift & Lower, (curated by Patrice Sharkey) Platform Art Spaces, 2010.
Working in a number of contexts and capacities, Bullivant is interested in the relationships between actions and events that occur inside and outside of the gallery, both arranged and incidental. To this end, fields as diverse as transport, construction, communication and others are not merely referenced but employed in the making of work. The interaction with these independent systems has the potential to extend the dimensions of the work beyond the architecture of the gallery and community of the artist.
Photography: Christo Crocker.
Jessie Bullivant is a practitioner from Melbourne. She produces work that draws on histories of conceptual art and institutional critique in dialogue with social and feminist practices. Her works interrogate the operation of power structures, by engaging with systems of communication, bureaucracy and interpersonal dynamics.