Artists: Rehgan de Mather, Maria Luisa Marino, Karen Heath, Simon Pericich, Brodie Ellis, Kylie Ligertwood
Curated by Claire Watson
23 May – 14 June, opens Thursday 22 May, 6 – 8pm
Artist Talk Thursday 12 June, 12.30 – 1.30pm
Part of the 2008 Next Wave Festival.
Employing innovative forms of collaboration over a period of nine
months, Gippsland and Melbourne-based artists have been brought
together in the exhibition Hockey Plot to explore socio-cultural landscapes and notions of territory, boundary and environmental politics.
Actively bridging the geographical and socio-cultural space between
regional and metropolitan based artists, this project brings artists
from disparate art practices together, transcending artistic boundaries
and forging new partnerships using innovative means of communication in
the process.
Seeking to broaden the notion of an artist’s practice as being more
than a solitary enterprise driven by a singular set of aesthetics and
preconceived creative values, artists were challenged throughout the
project by multiple, varied and sometimes conflicting interests – the
outcome of which will be displayed in both Melbourne and regional
Victoria.
Curated by Claire Watson, Hockey Plot presents works by
Gippsland and Melbourne-based artists Kylie Ligertwood, Simon Pericich,
Maria-Luisa Marino, Brodie Ellis, Karen Heath and Rehgan De Mather.
