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Instagram photos from 'Then Things Begin to Change' | Archive Space

Come on down to Archive Space and partake in this ephemeral exhibition #ephemeral2013 #archivespace

'Then Things Begin to Change' | Exhibition at Archive Space

Curator of 'Then Things Begin to Change', Katy Preston, writes:

'That we live in an era in which we are inundated with imagery through social media is not a new observation. The drive to capture the everyday through applications such as Instagram has become second nature. THEN THINGS BEGIN TO CHANGE… #ephemeral2013 explores this strengthening form of interaction with the world around us by creating an evolving exhibition of ephemeral art and asking observers to document its physical transitions in a cumulative virtual exhibition.

Working on varying temporal cycles and continuums the artworks of Kath Fries, Julia Gove, and collaborative artists Kathryn Ryan and Alexandra Spence mark the passing of time through the use of light, sound and material shifts. Changing according to the time of day, the day of the exhibition, and the movements of the observer THEN THINGS BEGIN TO CHANGE… #ephemeral2013 will constitute a different experience for every viewer. All visitors are strongly encouraged to actively engage with the artworks by photographing them (as details or in full, in isolation or in relation to one another) and posting the images on Instagram with the hashtag #ephemeral2013, forming a virtual record that will exist long after the physical exhibition ceases to, and providing an insight into how different viewers respond to the space.'

Link to Archive Space, Two Thousand.

'Selections from the Egg Room' | Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery

'Shell Egg' Photo: Michael Myers 2011

Contemporary works from Sydney College of the Arts

5th October - 10th November 2012

Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery

Cnr Coff and Duke Streets, Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

Tues - Sun 10am - 4pm

Selections from the ‘Egg Room’ are 5 objects taken from a larger pool of 24 objects. The found objects accumulated in my studio over a period of years, and the eggs grew. The eggs grew from the insides of other eggs. Plaster is a blank, stationary material, and is well suited to capture the shadowy insides of eggs. I’m not sure why, eggs or objects—I simply found myself collecting and making. There is a bower bird down the road who has a lovely collection of blue objects—feathers, bottle tops, plastic ribbons, and I wonder two things: Why blue, and what blue (other than feathers) did they collect before we put our blue plastic bits out there?

I suppose I wanted the insides of the eggs to come alive, for the objects to hatch them, or for the eggs to hatch objects. I wanted stories, weird but familiar object stories. I see them as Frankenstein eggs more that Fitcher’s Bird eggs—if Dr Frankenstein were more concerned with poetic rather than literal transubstantiation (and had a thing for birds).

The eggs and objects are quite delicately assembled. It has always been important for me that the process of assembling be conceptually or poetically exposed; as such these things are held together with mostly wax and string. They are tied, strung, wrapped and pinned, poised and balanced. They are easily toppled. They are precarious, reflective, and a little bit humorous.