ARTIST STATEMENT
The works in Ten-Part Net Trap have developed from my long-held fascination
with pattern (to which the exhibition title anagrammatically alludes)
and with its visual apprehension – patterns and shapes within patterns,
“object”-and-“background” switches, connections
made across the pattern-field by colour and tone, order set against chaos,
and so on.
Pattern is often denigrated as mere decoration, but we also speak of seeing
a pattern when we discern in apparently unrelated events an underlying
rationale or motivation. In Islam, pattern is a cosmological representation
of the infinite and the perfect – although in its representations
“errors” are often intentionally included, to avoid presuming
to the divine.
There’s a bit of subversion too, in using things not in the manner
for which they were created, and in looking at the spaces between things
rather than at the things themselves.
Perhaps it’s in what an object is not designed for that its significance
lies. Maybe the background around the object is more important than the
object apparently lying atop it. Maybe it’s the shapes we only dimly
perceive within the overall design that bear the important information.
Maybe what we usually see, the normal everyday appearance of things, is
in fact a smokescreen, a mis-direction, a cryptic-crossword clue.
-Tim Craker 2010
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
2010 TEN-PART NET TRAP Jackman Gallery St Kilda
2009 TAKE(N) AWAY The Substation Newport
2006 SURVEY EXHIBITION 1992-2005 Beaumaris Library, Beaumaris
2005 TRANSCRIPT Switchback Gallery, Monash University
2004 OUT OF PRINT Nellie Castan Gallery South Yarra
2001 CODE Latrobe Street Gallery Melbourne
1995 SIGN West Space Footscray
1995 SUBWAYTEXT Platform (Spencer Street Station subway) Melbourne
INTERNATIONAL GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2008 dot net dot au (with Louise Saxton) The Substation, Singapore
2008 dot net dot au (with Louise Saxton) The Annexe, Kuala Lumpur
2006 Feed Me! Art for Nature 2006 Rimbun Dahan, Kuang, Selangor
2000 Works on Paper: Sungshin Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2000 hi/lo exotico Espacio Alterno, Bogota, Colombia
1999 Works on Paper: Seoul National University Cultural Ctr, South Korea
1999 hi/lo exotico Centro Alzate Avendano, Bogota, Colombia
SELECTED GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2010 Adaptation Seven Thousand Oaks Festival, Guildford Lane
Gallery
2009 Parking Big West Festival, Footscray
2009 Hybrid :Toyota Indoor-Outdoor Sculpture Show Toyota Community Spirit
Gallery
2009 Moreland Sculpture Show Bridges Reserve Coburg
2009 aRtECYCLE (juried prize exhibition) Incinerator Arts Complex Moonee
Ponds
2009 Williamstown Festival Contemporary Art Prize The Substation, Newport
2009 Queer City (curated entry) Midsumma Festival Guildford Lane Gallery
2008 Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition Yering Station, Yarra Glen
2008 Arnold Bloch Liebler Sculpture Exhibition Melbourne
2008 aRtECYCLE Incinerator Arts Complex Moonee Ponds
2008 Queer City Midsumma Festival Fortyfive Downstairs, Melbourne
2007 dot net dot my (with Louise Saxton) Red Gallery, Fitzroy North
2006 The Postcard Show Linden St Kilda
2004 Floranova Nellie Castan Gallery South Yarra
2003 Red Spot Special Nellie Castan Gallery South Yarra
2003 Artists’ Wallpaper Platform (Spencer Street Station subway)
2003 Queer Street Poster Project Midsumma Festival, Melbourne
2002 South {Sur} Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka ACT
2001 Colloquium Linden St Kilda
2001 The Third Darebin-Latrobe Acquisitive Art Prize Bundoora Park Homestead
2001 take a look @ Allans Walk Artist Run Space, Bendigo
2000 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery
2000 The Exquisite Corpse Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
2000 New Q 2000 (Midsumma Festival) Linden Gallery, St.Kilda
GRANTS, AWARDS
& RESIDENCIES
2009 Shortlisted for the Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award
2009 Judge’s commendation, Moreland Sculpture Show
2008 Sponsorship of dot-net-dot-au travelling exhibition by the Australian
High Commission, Malaysia
2006 Residency at Rimbun Dahan, Kuang, Selangor, Malaysia
1995 Radio National Fringe Festival Award for Visual Art
1995, 1996 & 1998 Pat Corrigan artist grants
COLLECTIONS
Angela and Hijjas Kasturi, Rimbun Dahan, Selangor, Malaysia
Private collections in Australia and Europe
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