“Space, Pieces of:”
Bridie Lunney
31 Oct → 2 Dec 2012

I was hoping there would be more to it than that. If the city can constantly shift itself to create new designations of space for display and exchange, then the objects must shift with it. Tethering these spaces across an alleyway and piercing a wall to activate and pull through, these hybrids are coerced to evolve through exchange of process and materiality. Here is gold cast with form ply and powder coated steel. Rigging rope with silver and concrete. The materials seep up walls and forge into each other to allow for shifts in scale and a new way of looking. From the intimate tension embedded in the detail of the architectural constraints to the acknowledgement of the world beyond and between the walls. A research project that allocates a space to begin again. Again.

Bridie Lunney’s work investigates performative responses to site, creating sculptural forms that acknowledge the body as a conduit between our emotional and psychological selves and the physical world. Working intuitively, she activates spaces through the mimicry and subversion of architectural conditions and gestures, creating installations that reveal the presence, absence and flux of what is already there. Her recent exhibitions include Place of Assembly as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival; The ceiling has lost it’s solidity, Manysquaremetres in 2012; A Condition of Change, Sarah Scout; Suspension Test, Conical in 2011; Non-Negotiable, Project Space, 2010 and Once more with Feeling, Margaret Lawrence Gallery 2009. She is currently teaching Sculpture at Monash University in the Faculty of Art and Design.