“What works best (each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else part two)”
Jacqui Shelton
16 May → 14 June 2014

Addressing the place of art in the social space of conversation, and the influence of conversation and rumour in art, this work focuses on metaphors of travelling, movement, consistent fluctuations, scripting, and ideas taking new form as they shift between people. The art object is a vessel for the transferral of ideas and questions between people. This project supplies a platform for discussion, which is focused on the influence of conversation itself in art. Performance, suggested actions, and scripted behaviours react to each other like a musical score – one action prompts another. This project removes focus from the art object, and concentrates on the meandering, unfixed position of art in our thoughts and conversation.

Jacqui Shelton is an interdisciplinary artist based in Melbourne. She completed her Honours year in a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Monash University in 2012. Her practice engages thinking around the utilisation of action, influence, chance, repetition, and artistic labor, though performative action, video, sculpture, writing and installation. She has recently exhibited at Screen Space Gallery, Seventh Gallery, Platform Contemporary Art Spaces, Blindside ARI, Felt Space, Egg Gallery, Kings ARI, Perth Institute for Contemporary Art, and Tinning St Gallery.