Showing posts with label Elizabeth Rankin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elizabeth Rankin. Show all posts

18 January 2020

Disorderly Bodies opened last night

Open 11am-5pm Friday - Sunday 17 - 21 January

Top: Kirsten Drewes Disorderly Bodies ; Lower: Tamsin Salehien, Rolande Souliere FROLIC FREEZE 1

Elizabeth Rankin Disorderly Bodies 2020

Kirsten Drewes Disorderly Bodies 2020

22 December 2019

Disorderly Bodies opens Friday 17 January 6-8pm


Elizabeth Rankin and  Kirsten Drewes


Opening event Friday January 17 6-8pm


Open 11- 5pm Friday - Sunday 
17 Jan-3 Feb 2020 



Kirsten Drewes and Elizabeth Rankin collaborate in the exhibition Disorderly Bodies to explore bodily forms with empathy and irony.

Rankin’s paintings reverse the hierarchical male gaze. The use of domestic fabrics in the paintings refers to traditional female materials of the home which ought to be a place of sanctuary but can be a site of violence. Drewes’ soft sculptures are disturbing in their forms evoking humour, dismay and sympathy for her creatures. These disorderly bodies do not conform to social expectations.

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Elizabeth Rankin

Kirsten Drewes

22 October 2017

Hidden - opens Friday 27 October 6-8pm

Kirsten Drewes and Elizabeth Rankin 

28 October – 12 November 2017



Kirsten Drewes   Babyface wool felt,plastic  35x 30cm,2017
The exhibition Hidden reveals secrets, both the familiar and unfamiliar; the return of the half remembered into the present. It negotiates with the ambiguity of perception and presents experience as haunted, curious and ironic. Kirsten Drewes and Elizabeth Rankin present works which explore disturbing worlds. Kirsten’s soft sculptures describe abject bodily forms with humour. Elizabeth’s darkly romantic paintings, drawings and animations narrate stories of Australian noir. This is an integrated exhibition. It engages the space by hanging small and large drawings in space as collage and projecting animations onto a surface. There are soft sculptures crouching on the floor and suspended from the ceiling. The intention is for a dialogue between the works of each artist within the space that will extend the perceptions of the viewer. This collaboration between the artists enriches the experience of the exhibition as one of varied visual forms that create new conversations about the vulnerability of being human.



Elizabeth Rankin Mortality  oil/marble dust/wax on wood,2017