What we bring back, Sydney 2018

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What we bring back

AirSpace Projects and Gallery, (Deep Space gallery), Sydney, 2 – 18th August 2018

What is deep space? This show suggests it is the place we go to as artists and bring things back. Internal, unknown private space. What we bring back presents sculptures and drawings as relics or traces of what we bring back from the embodied experience of making. Fragments of sculpture expand out and through their boxes; relics that are still in the process of becoming. In living, creative space, we need protection; amulets, wands, and tool belts,  because we don’t know what we will find.

The passageway to deep space is the body: a shifting gateway of processes and actions. In these drawings and sculptures, the moving body is traced through colourful pastels, charcoal and lines that struggle against each other; supporting while they are also escaping. Sculptures are made from materials that are soft, decorative, painted and spiky: stuck, cut, bound, and added to. We are all a collection, like flotsam bound together by living in a swelling, tumbling ocean of activity.

All drawings are framed, and all sculptures are in luxe, black velvet lined wooden boxes:

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We are woven together 860 x 840mm framed, pastel, oil pastel, charcoal on paper, 2018, $1650

Bone Fire, 450 x 620mm , pastel, oil pastel, charcoal on paper, 2018, framed in oak frame, $850

We are still apparent, 450 x 620mm framed, pastel, oil pastel, charcoal on paper, 2018, $850

Lump treasure, 2018, mixed media, $400

(home), 2018, mixed media, $550

 

Fight with Love Club, 2017, mixed media, $650

Heart, 2014, mixed media, $600

Dipping witch stick, 2018, mixed media, boxed in black velvet and wood box, $850

Witch stick with bumps, 2018, mixed media, boxed in black velvet and wood box, $850

Witch stick with lump, 2018, mixed media, boxed in black velvet and wood box, $850

Witch stick with reach, 2018, mixed media, boxed in black velvet and wood box, $850

Witch stick with fire, 2018, mixed media, boxed in black velvet and wood box, $850

 

Here’s a short video to show some of the detail in a sculpture:

30 second close-up tour of Witch Stick with Lump

Siân Torrington explores relationships of interconnectivity, and interdependence, through an expressive language of colour, mark making and structural props that hold drawings and sculptures together, as we are held together. Siân graduated with an MFA with distinction from Massey University in 2010, has had numerous solo and groups shows, and works from a studio in Wellington New Zealand. Her work has been commissioned for public art institutions, including ‘Soft is Stronger than Hard’ at City Gallery Wellington, and ‘The way you have held things’ for Christchurch Art Gallery, as well as for festivals, and by the Public Art Fund, Wellington. She has held artist residencies in Samoa at Tiapipata Arts Centre, and Shanthi Rd, India through the Asia New Zealand Foundation.