“Tarp West Space/HMS”
Henry Jock Walker and Tarpspace
11 Apr → 11 May 2014

From May 2013 to January 2014 tarpspace and Henry’s Mobile Studio (HMS) journeyed over 20, 000km around Australia.

Tarpspace is a mobile artist-run initiative, aiming to extend the physical and conceptual framework of an art space. It consists of a blue tarpaulin, that can be constructed at it’s most basic into a 3 x 3 x 3 metre cube. Tarp West Space is an exhibition curated by Jessie Lumb of works documenting and extending the main tarpspace events of 2013: Movement Snare, Andrew Treloar, Broome, WA; Sing a Song of a Map When a Little Bird Told Me Macaroni, Noriko Nakamura, Cairns, QLD; The Beacon, Studio 85, Murwillumbah, NSW; The Equatorial Arrangement (part one), Therese keogh, Ouyen, VIC; Tarp Royal Coronation TT 4 TS, Team Textiles, Launceston, TAS. There will also be a live-feed of Louise Kenward’s tarpspace project Bexhill to Bexhill, Bexhill, NSW, running daily April 23-26.

Henry’s Mobile Studio is a portable studio/workshop/painting machine, it has collaborated with many artists to create painterly workshops, installations and happenings while treating the whole nation as a platform for making. The Toyota Hiace ‘Henrynetti’ van has been the all-in-one home, studio, venue and carrier for the project. HMS (West Space, April 11- May 11) will begin as a retrospective view of the HMS 2013 oeuvre. During the Next Wave Festival there will be a series of events extending the various collaborative adventures. The content in West Space will evolve each day with live action in the gallery, around the city and at the beach from May 1, ending with a finale event at West Space May 11 from 3pm-6pm. Collaborative endeavours with Henry Walker will include: Virtual Sunset Strip, Andrew Treloar and Ben Cocks; One Arm Point Painting Jam, Ashely Hunter and Vivienne McDermott; Artrubbishart, Trevor Jenkins; Painting Painting Machines, Gregory Hodge; 36000 Rainbows a Day, Jessica Lumb and Renuka Rajiv; and Surf Studio with surfers and guest performers.

Henry Jock Walker studied at the Art School of South Australia 2006- 2008, partly studying abroad in San Diego, California. Henry successfully completed his honours in 2011 at the Victorian College of Art. Henry has been performing and exhibiting in artist-run spaces across Australia, including solo shows at Sawtooth ARI, Launceston; Witch Meat ARI, Brisbane; TCB artinc and Rearview Gallery, Melbourne; Felt Space, Fontanelle and Australian Experimental Art Foundation (Odradekaeaf), Adelaide; and Floro c anto Gallery, San Diego.

tarpspace is a mobile artist-run initiative, co-founded and co-directed in Adelaide by Jessie Lumb, Bradley Lay and Henry Jock Walker.

Henry's Mobile Studio has been commissioned and developed through Next Wave’s Kickstart program for Next Wave Festival 2014. HMS (West Space) is assisted by the Helpmann Academy Project Grant.