Precipice: The Edges of Things
Variously defined as “a cliff, a steep or overhanging place, a hazardous situation,” being on the “precipice” may imply immediate danger or refer to a critical point where significant change is imminent. As the show’s wall label notes, these works “speak to meeting points, boundaries, transitions and the charged dynamic of the threshold, that precipice […]
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Lindy Lee
Recently, I read an acquaintance’s reflection that the condition of embodiment is almost always embarrassment, shame, or discomfort of some kind. In Western, (post)Christian cultures we think of material life this way: the cycles of health underscored by sickness, the punctuation of life with death, the rot and riot of organic world around us. The […]
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Craig Tuffin
While he may not be a household name, Craig Tuffin is a well-known identity in photography and teaching circles. Alongside two decades of practice as a commercial photographer, his work with nineteenth century photographic techniques and processes has led him to be a popular speaker on the topic. His photographs have been collected by numerous […]
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Jacqueline Hennessy
In The Vigil (Nocturne), 2021, a set of fingertips emerge from a lace cuff, reaching across the painting’s frame to shine the light of a candle onto the scene. These fingers are declarative, deliberate in their gesture. They’re also demure, though not in the sense of being compliant to the demanding interrogative gaze of the viewer. Rather, […]
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Victoria Reichelt
There is some irony in the term ‘endangered artefacts’ given that Victoria Reichelt’s work appears to be a painted photographic facsimile. The style itself is another near-redundant form used to dazzle the untutored and too often, in less capable hands, that’s all it is. But at its best the quality that stops this type of […]
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Ryan Presley
Ryan Presley’s new series is the fruit of one month spent in the Nancy Fairfax Artist-in-Residence Studio.
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