forest falls behind
Maddison Wandel, Lily Fforde, Ruth Höflich, Genevieve Elliot, and Ishika Kinzel
12.07.24 - 16.07.24
forest falls behind is an exploration of memory, dreaming and the process of searching. Exhibited works are intended to change and deepen meaning through the process of creating; exhibiting as a group prompts a sense of connection and dialogue between the works exhibited and the artists themselves.
Maddison Wandel is interested in the concept of navigation as a means to explore what is lost and absent. For Maddison, navigation is a conceptual framework to explore the ways we search, contest, and understand traumatic histories and memories that are buried deep within our decision-making. Maddison’s research is informed by the collection of personal archives, consisting of materials that draw largely from diaries, family photos, and memorabilia and aims to situate these personal narratives within a broader context by considering the ways we interact with past experiences and store these memories. Maddison employs photography, printmaking, and sculptural practice with particular consideration of materials and their histories. The artmaking process, sitting with these materials, is meditational for Maddison.
@maddisonwandel on Instagram.
Ishika Kinzel creates art as a spiritual exploration through a posthumanist lens, with the aim of engendering audiences with a deeper sense of love, respect, and connection for all life forms. Ishika draws inspiration from sacred geometric forms in nature, which manifest in mandala-like patterns explicated through a variety of mediums, most recently including cardboard, plaster, and handmade prayer beads. Ishika is interested in how sensorial elements can be utilised—such as music, scent, and video—to subvert dualistic modes of thinking by situating one into their body, feelings, and intuition.
@a_walk_might_help on Instagram.
Lily Fforde’s work is formed through a material and conceptual interest in reconstitution in broad terms. Lily employs experimental printmaking practices as a means to emphasize the processes and methods of making, where the act of printing reveals something about the process. Lily makes use of ready-to-hand materials, textiles, and objects that circulate in these means of production. Lily uses printmaking as an analogy for understanding and memory, in which the ‘original’ is mirrored, repeated, and altered to a changed yet familiar form. This often takes the form of copper etchings of fabric impressions; an impression of a relief of a scrap of memory. Lily involves self deeply in the drawn-out nature of the processes.
@lilyfforde on Instagram.
Genevieve Elliott is an artist and fashion designer. Her practice encompasses printed media, film, writing, installation, and textiles. Elliott researches the interface of art and fashion to examine the semiotic relationship between narrative and garments, class, and society. Elliott holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture and Spatial Practice) from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fashion Design from RMIT.
Link to Genevieve’s most recent exhibition: https://arts.yarracity.vic.gov.au/arts-programs/public-art/carlton-library-light-boxes/genevieve-elliott
Ruth Höflich is a visual artist currently based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work spans film and video, photography and installation.
https://www.ruthhoflich.com/
Roomsheet here, booklet here
Opening event supported by Fellr and Little Reddie
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