Sawtooth ARI has opened up its space to Remnants - a new exhibit exploring different concepts all connected by loss and the change that time inevitably brings.
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Gallery A will hold Hydropoetics by Hannah Foley, Gallery B will host Without your mother by Madeline Bishop, and Gallery C will be home to Legacy Fresco by Damian Dillon and Carolyn Craig.
Foley's work is comprised of three pieces. It is an ongoing research project into methods and poetic outcomes of composing and performing with a site and more-than-human-bodies.
The art project was created with the inspiration of Lake Gordon, which is a man-made reservoir in South-West Tasmania.
"We are all connected, we are all watery bodies. I went through processes of deep listening and tuning myself to the body and the site, and in particular thinking about the lake and the water as a body, as a collaborating body," she said.
"The [works] are all evolving still and will continue to evolve in the space over the next few months."
Foley hoped appreciators of the exhibit would think about their own relationships with more-than-human-bodies of water and what that meant for them.
Sawtooth director Zara Sully said Foley's work encompassed the concept of time being a changing element which demonstrated how art could also change through time.
"Hannah's sound work will travel throughout the space, and create a hum they all share together," they said.
Without your mother explores the concept of what a mother means to a child and how that changes with independence, and what from early life remains in adulthood.
Legacy Fresco considers how visual practices underpin, and can undermine, the colonisation of space.
Sully said the exhibition had been chosen and curated by former director Liam James in 2019.
"I think these shows explore what can be changed and lost throughout the time process because these shows came to fruition a long time ago now and seeing them in the flesh we can see differences perhaps to what we were expecting," they said.
"I really hope people enjoy being exposed to a different form of art than what we see in Launceston normally."
Remnants opens on August 27 at 6pm and will run until October 17.
Dana Anderson
On a Friday night you may see me at the theatre, a festival, an exhibition, or in the corner of one of my favourite establishments reading a novel. So, it makes sense I am the arts and what's on reporter for The Examiner. To contact me about a story please send an email to dana.anderson@examiner.com.au
On a Friday night you may see me at the theatre, a festival, an exhibition, or in the corner of one of my favourite establishments reading a novel. So, it makes sense I am the arts and what's on reporter for The Examiner. To contact me about a story please send an email to dana.anderson@examiner.com.au
