“Notice Board Exhibition Series”
Isabella Darcy, Emily Dang, Ashley Perry and Alisha Abate
25 July → 30 Sept 2017
Across July, August and September 2017, four recent graduates will present projects on the West Space notice board. Isabella Darcy, Emily Dang, Ashley Perry and Alisha Abate were each awarded this opportunity as an outcome of their 2016 graduate exhibitions.
25-29 July: Isabella Darcy (MADA)
Hold on Tight!, 2017
Isabella Darcy is an emerging cross media artist and recent graduate from Monash University, Bachelor of Fine Art. Her practise follows interest in the systems and flux of value within consumable objects and design, reconsidering and exploring value and the alignment with ways of contemporary and material culture and human consumption. She believes materials and objects, are symbolic to how we navigate our lives.
15-19 August: Emily Dang (MADA)
Having completed her fine art degree in 2016, Emily Dang is currently writing a thesis exploring family violence in immigrant communities as part of studies at Monash University. She is interested in gendered violence and other political and social issues, but tries to explore these heavy themes with humour, contrast and exaggeration. Emily works across digital sound and video, printmaking and illustration.
12-16 September: Ashley Perry (VCA)
Ashley Perry works across sculpture, drawing, printmaking and new media. As a descendant of the Goenpul people of Quandamooka country and Western ancestry, this broad cultural inheritance has informed the materials he uses, ranging from Western artworks to Dreamtime and creation stories. His recent works are poetic investigations of creation myths, creationism, artistic process and indigenous knowledges. He has recently been researching Quandamooka cultural practices focusing on material culture, and examining knowledge structures and methods around collections and collecting.
26-30 September: Alisha Abate (VCA)
Nil Sine Labore, 2017
Translated in Latin as ‘nothing without labour’, the work uses bureaucratic methodologies of communication as the titular and a material-heavy installation as a didactic reference to the internal workings of industry. Made up of 17 rectangles of two different sizes and conversing with the dusty fire-truck flame-red pipes above, the sculpture forms prismatic trapezoidal shapes articulated by joinery and space left in-between. Rather than drawing attention to its rib-like steel reinforcement as a support structure, the material adds a physical weight to the load-bearing concrete roof upon which it is mounted and reconfigured. Alisha holds a degree in Sculpture and Spatial Practice from the Victorian College of the Arts (2016) and has recently exhibited at the Yarra Sculpture Gallery and No Vacancy Gallery. She has an upcoming residency at the Testing Grounds in December and a solo show with Midsumma in 2018.
Isabella Darcy is an emerging cross-media artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice follows an interest in the systems and flux of value within consumable objects and design, reconsidering and exploring value and the alignment with ways of contemporary culture, material culture, and human consumption.
Emily Dang is an artist and sociologist, with a passion for addressing gendered and racial inequalities.
Ashley Perry is an interdisciplinary Goenpul artist from Quandamooka country. His recent works come from research into Quandamooka cultural practices, focusing on material culture held in museum, university and private collections. Perry works across sculpture, drawing, printmaking and new media, using traditional processes such as copperplate etching to more contemporary such as .html programming.
Alisha Abate lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne.) Alisha's primary sculptural concern is how the living body inhabits space, alongside the reciprocal relationship of how space is constructed.