“Somewhere Else”
Laura Delaney and Lillian O'Neil
16 May → 14 June 2014

Laura Delaney and Lillian O'Neil use collage and collected imagery to open up alternate ways with which to consider the construction of memory and meaning. Their practices draw from cultural and historical references sourced from archives, found materials and mass media. Delaney and O'Neil will pool their materials to create a new body of work in response to each other’s image archives. The collaborative show draws from the overlap and gaps of their individual practices, using the behaviours of collage to bring latent content to a conscious plane. They will attempt to solve crimes of passion, humour and tragedy using practice methods of retrieval and reassignment.

Lillian O'Neil (b. 1985) is based in Melbourne and Sydney. She uses monumentally-scaled collage to explore possibilities of accumulative autobiography and is interested in the way aggregated images compress time and history.
In 2013 and 2012 respectively, she had solo exhibitions at The Commercial Gallery and MOP both in Sydney. In 2013, her work was included in an international group exhibition at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, IN THE CUT: COLLAGE AS IDEA, curated by Hannah Matthews and in Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century, curated by Adam Jasper and Holly Williams, at UTS Gallery, The University of Technology, Sydney, her work was commissioned for the Center for Contemporary Photography Billboard, Melbourne (until Feb 2014). O’Neil has been awarded numerous grants some of which were part of her earlier work as part of the Melbourne-based collaborative group, Safari Team. O'Neil is currently completing a Master of Fine Art at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, with an Australian Postgraduate Award supervised by artist, Mikala Dwyer. Her work is held in the collection of the Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, the BresicWhitney Collection, Sydney, and in private collections in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Lillian O’Neil is represented by The Commercial Gallery, Sydney.
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Laura Delaney (b. 1984) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Melbourne. Her practice is predominantly site-specific, responding to the sociopolitical significance of civic spaces. Delaney holds a Masters of Fine Art by Research (2011) and Bachelor of Fine Art Honours degree (2008) from Monash University, Melbourne. Her MFA research focused upon contemporary modes of collage. Delaney completed a semester abroad in Italy during her undergrad and MFA research (2006 & 2009). She has exhibited at various Melbourne galleries and public spaces, presented site-specific projects with Next Wave Festival (I’m Fine at Orygen Youth Health, Melbourne, 2010 and HULL at The Mission to Seafarers, Melbourne, 2012). Delaney has been the recipient of grants and awards including the Australian Postgraduate Award, Australia Council ArtStart Grant and City of Melbourne Young Artists Grant. Her work is held in the Collection of the Victorian Department of Education, Treasury Place, Melbourne. She has co-run ARI SEVENTH Gallery, Melbourne. In 2013 Delaney was artist-in-residence with Forest Fringe for Edinburgh Festival (UK) and Fierce Festival in Birmingham (UK), where she will be presenting a collaborative, site-specific project in October 2014.
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