Open hours:
Thursday: 11am - 4pm
Friday: 11am - 4pm
Saturday: 11am - 4pm
Sunday 11am - 4pm
Monday: 11am - 4pm
Tuesday: 11am - 4pm
Wednesday: 11am - 4pm
Where: Gallery 2, Field Trip Gallery
1 Latrobe Tce, Paddington
When: Mar 14 - Mar 23
Opening event: Friday 14th March, 5:30pm - 8pm
Kirsi Reinikka:
I am exploring what it is to be safe, and where is the safe place. Is it at home or outside home? Is it in Australia or in the world or in remote bush? Is it within my body, with others, and then with whom, or is it with/in solitude? My paintings are reflections on the feeling of safety. For me safety can be found at home, with my people and dogs, the trees, water, clouds, in the belief of the ebb and flow of all organic. It is also found in my imagination and process of art making, in my heartbeat and beyond.
In my youth I did a bit of ocean diving, and I remember the feeling before breaking the surface and going under the water; the anxiety and the fear of unknown. Once I descended under the surface the coolness, bliss and excitement hit me, and I knew I was safe. In the Jungian psychology ocean symbolises collective unconscious. The world appears unsafe for many, and often for me too, but there is freedom in the deep of the mind. I let the lines and colours take place on the canvas. During the painting process I go from chaos to (my kind of) cohesive, organising shapes and ideas as I go along. My hand is the extension of my brain, exactly what Immanuel Kant said. The outcome is something I did not plan but what happened.
Alison Stone:
The new works expand on previous concepts of the home and its perception as a private space for comfort, nurture and security. However it can also have connotations of great anxiety.
Her small scale sculptures explore and reflect life experiences and observations. Narratives of mental health and dementia are currently influencing her work. Stone creates spaces that explore the complex duality and contradictions of human nature.
The miniature invites close scrutiny, voyeurism and transcendence. It is both familiar and unfamiliar, intimate and strange. The eye is led into these small spaces through lighting and placement of objects. Stone provokes a desire to see more, through purposely blocking the viewer.
Stone is interested in challenging the viewers perception. She is trying to create sensations in the viewer that they have entered another realm that exists somewhere between dream and an altered reality.