Object
A group exhibition
10.11.23 - 20.11.23
‘Object’ is a group exhibition that explores how aesthetic experience can be found in the ephemeral, the conceptual, and the everyday: the shift and constant revaluing as an exploration and contemplation of how these changes influence our understanding of what constitutes an art object.
Featuring work from:
Lilly Skipper
Lilly’s practice revolves around a cycle of encounter ⟶ intervention ⟶ exchange. The artist contemplates what it is to cultivate a practice of vulnerable disinterest in resolution, leading to a rushed fuelling of ideas. She presents process-based works rejecting labels of ‘outcome’, as her forms often tease implications of movement, flux or material transformation through gestural acts of unmaking or reassembling. Her impulsive ‘spurs’ negotiate creative ideas of care and carelessness in the sometimes indecisive artmaking process, troubling a near delineation between public and private.
Mikaela McBain
Mikaela is a visual artist living in Naarm, Australia, currently undertaking a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the
Victorian College of the Arts. Her practice is informed by drawing, painting and sculpture, and nurturing
the intuitive desires of collecting and arranging. Using assemblage to build upon a visual codex, she
celebrates the object as an alien infiltrated by human pattern and ideals—her own experience with
neurodivergence often informing such themes. Through this process comes distilled forms of contrasting
materials that speak to memory, perception and play.
Naomi Milne
Naomi’s practice moves, observes and encounters, exposing moments of vulnerability and tension that only exist ephemerally. Naomi is interested in exploring specific roles of materiality, focusing on details of interaction. Through experimenting with gathered and found objects, Naomi creates situations, while incorporating a curious process that allows for contingencies to arise. She captures occurrences between objects and fleeting phenomena of the everyday, isolated to the confines of her own directed recordings.
Isaac Lizardo
Isaac Lizardo is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Narrm. Lizardo’s objects and images, malleable in interpretation, unveil a compelling dichotomy: the tension that surfaces when an object implies presence while its absence suggests alternative narratives. assemblages draw on the old and the new, highlighting the evolving nature of meaning. This arrangement underscores the mutability of meaning over time and under changing circumstances. As contextual nuances shift, the meaning we attribute to these objects transforms.
Kit Johnston
Kit Johnston is an emerging artist living on Boonwurrung land of the Kulin Nation.
Mikaela McBain
Oil, acrylic and coloour pencil on canvas
81x60cm
Lilly Skipper
Foam, perspex, wooden frame, carpet
Mikaela McBain
Plastic, push pins, wire, wood frame
32x28cm
Kit Johnston
Inkjet print, tape, lighter, acrylic, oil and shoe polish
11x42cm
Kit Johnston
Acyrlic, inkjet print, resin and stretcher bar
13x13cm
Mikaela McBain
Plastic, metal, wood
86x15x5cm
Isaac Lizardo
Butadiene rubber and styrene butadiene rubber
Suitable Grounds (Asphalt vs Bitumen)
Isaac Lizardo
Polyurethane, hard foam, bitumen sealant
41x60cm
Kit Johnston
Brochure holder, acrylic, acrylic extender, tape, micaceous iron oxide, inkject print, (acetate)
21x30cm
Naomi Milne
Video recording
Lilly Skipper
Marker on board, wood, paint
Kit Johnston
Plywood, plaster, oil, acyrlic, ink, powdered pigment,
inkjet print, micaceous iron oxide and pencil shavings
41x90cm