31 October 2020

Jeffrey Wood's Weapons of Choice opens Saturday 7 November 1-5pm

Open Fri - Sun 11am - 5pm November 7-22, 2020, 

Opening event Saturday, 7th November, 1-5 pm

Artist talk: Sunday 15 November 1-4pm  
Live broadcast via Facebook or Instagram & Twitter TBA


Weapons of choice.

Jeffrey Wood presents a new body of work, made while self isolating during the COVID-19 Pandemic.  Four small sculptures of  iconic military weaponry, are all made from the materials immediately available at home. Caring for two cats; Gonzo and Eddie ensure a consistent supply of Cat food tins.The material has a unique aesthetic quality, having a texture and finish similar to Brass or Gold. The pandemic has shut down the global economy and the consequences of that unprecedented but necessary halt to commence is largely unknown and frightening.  The Weapons of choice collection is a response to the science driven shutdown and influenced by the philosophy of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and American artist Tom Sachs. Wood is interested in our participation in the economy through consumption. The ubiquitous act of feeding the cats is inextricably intertwined with the manufacturer and proliferation of weapons. Is that the price of freedom and happiness?











This project is supported by funding from the Inner West Council


Conditions of entry to the exhibition:
As there are limited places in Articulate due to COVID, please be prepared to wait if it is full when you arrive.
Please stay at home if you’re unwell.
Stay at home if you’ve been in contact with a known or suspected COVID-19 case.
Please wear a face mask in Articulate.
Utilise hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.
Fill in your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.
Maintain 1.5 metres distance from other people.

3 October 2020

Kendal Heyes - Time and the Ocean II

 Open  11am-5pm Fri-Sun 17 Oct - 1 November

Opening event: Sat Oct 17, 1-5pm 



Kendal Heyes, Refugees, 1930’s 2020 (Detail), 76x56cm, Pokerwork on Saunders Watercolour paper.


































































Time and the Ocean II  is a continuation of my drawing installation shown at ArticulateUpstairs last year. It further develops ideas and imagery of Time and the Ocean including time as a medium of personal memories and historical events, time invested in making the drawing, ‘marking time’ through slow processes, repetition and variation, the drawing itself as a repository of time, the temporal dimension of viewing the work, time as an ocean in which things are lost and recovered, the ocean as the site of childhood experiences living on the coast and of broader historical events, its associations with ships and seafarers, explorers and refugees, pleasure and danger.  


The drawings are pyrographic, made with a pokerwork machine, which involves burning the image into the paper. It is one of the bold mediums, like ink or marker pen drawing, by which a mark once made cannot be revised or undone, but it carries none of the art-historical baggage of traditional drawing mediums. The images are made with halftone dots, like close-ups of images reproduced in newspapers. Aside from the idea of the drawn image as a copy of an already mediated photographic one, it plays with the idea that you can’t always comprehend a situation when you’re too close to it. 


KH 2020



Kendal Heyes,Swimmer 2020 (Detail), 76x56cm, Pokerwork on Saunders Watercolour paper.






Kendal Heyes, Ocean 2020 (Detail), 28 panels, each 76x56cm, Pokerwork on Saunders Watercolour paper.




https://kendalheyes.com


This project is supported by funding from the Inner West Council


Conditions of entry to the exhibition:
As there are limited places in Articulate due to COVID, please be prepared to wait if it is full when you arrive.
Please stay at home if you’re unwell.
Stay at home if you’ve been in contact with a known or suspected COVID-19 case.
Please wear a face mask in Articulate.
Utilise hand sanitisers provided at the entrance to Articulate.
Fill in your contact tracing information on entry to Articulate.
Maintain 1.5 metres distance from other people.
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