shows

Mardi Crocker @ APPLECROSS #9

the trace of a movement

the trace of a movement is a show developed in response to the home in which it takes place. Consisting of one painting and an accompanying text, it considers, and finds a foothold in, the bathroom, and draws in on the bottle of handsoap situated on the counter within. Contemplating the bodily use and experience of both this space and the object in it, the work considers our engagement with, and perception of, everyday objects and the kinds of traces they leave.

 


Liam Colgan @ APPLECROSS #8  18.10.15

World Model
http://www.liamcolgan.net/
 

Emma Schrader @ APPLECROSS #7 6.6.15

Bottleneck

Tubes lean or hang. Narrow passageways will guide as well as restrict the flow. A small opening reveals a thicker, darker space. Enclosed internal spaces which can be found inside a home. Nearby are other objects that rest against one another. 

Striving to achieve the feeling of something that has a quiet stillness, and feeling the possibility of life. Of waiting and of being at rest. The way liquid wax pours and quickly becomes firm as it cools. Examining the physical signs left in the wake of something that has flowed. Ripples, bubbles and tears. 

 

 

Emma Buswell @ APPLECROSS #6 28.3.15

Matheson

MATHESON presents a series of new site responsive painted works by Emma Buswell.  This exhibition considers the nature of artistic display, the institution and in particular the reclamation of the domestic and residential as a site for new initiatives. Buswell positions the APPLECROSS Space and its surrounding territory as a forum for the display and discussion of a series of future possible uses for domiciliary space, placing emphasis on sites empty or unused as potential vessels for forthcoming artistic actions. Mimicking the clumsy aesthetics of the common real-estate sign, these new works play on the way in which imminent commercial structures are made known and desirable, whilst putting into question the political implications of available public space and private property.

http://emmabuswell.net/



Carla Adams @ APPLECROSS #5 4.3.14

Reproduction

For Reproduction, Perth artist Carla Adams has created a body in response to the art collection of APPLECROSS directors Dave Attwood and Shannon Lyons. Adams has removed the collection of various paintings, prints, photographs and objects that usually adorn the walls and shelves of the APPLECROSS art space (also the apartment of Attwood and Lyons), and replaced them with fabricated look-a-likes. Adams’ versions are approximations of the original works rather than replicas, ‘sketchy’ imitations rather than finely made duplicates.
In re-making the works of others, Adams’ versions could be read as sincere and intimate reflections on the creative labour of others, or alternatively be interpreted as satirical parodies that demystify the coveted and the fetishised.

See images of Reproduction here http://carlaadams.net/work/work-2/



Ron Marsh @ APPLECROSS #4 15.11.13

Did you call moi a dipshit?

Romance, rebellion, obsession and angst. The recent work of Perth based artist Ron Marsh is a personal reflection on the troublesome territory of male adolescence. For Did you call moi a dipshit? Marsh draws on college rock, sports entertainment, anti-perspirants and science-fiction to paint a disturbing picture of the artist’s former pubescent self.

The exhibition continues Marsh’s interest in the popular culture of the 1990s and marks his return to the Perth gallery circuit following overseas residencies in Vanuatu and the British Isles. Recent exhibitions of Marsh’s work include She got biscuits, Wellington, Its 3am I most be lonely, Johannesburg and The feathery stroker, Denver.

Mike Singe @ APPLECROSS #3 10.8.13

Singe’s Masters project, completed in 2011, developed a sculptural language that actively responded to and participated in the climate change debate. It employed energy and air as key materials in direct response to climate change, a discourse framed and driven by the relationship between energy use and the earth’s atmosphere.

The research was motivated by a desire to develop an alternative approach to making environmentally engaged sculpture where singular strategies, such as utilising only recycled materials, have limitations in their ability to address the complex and seemingly intangible nature of climate change.

For APPLECROSS #3, Singe presents a site-specific version of his work Five Hour Carbon Capture and Storage.

Thanks to PICA for the lend of the projector for APPLECROSS #3. 

Tim Carter @ APPLECROSS #2 26.4.13

Screenhouse

Screenhouse is a collection of filmed encounters by Tim Carter in response to Dave Attwood and Shannon Lyons’s site-specific project space, APPLECROSS. Spending time in the owners’ home, the artist has become a quasi house-guest and wannabe voyeur. However, it is not the perverse or foreign that has attracted his gaze, instead observing the drama of the house and its banalities for archival purposes.

Using the camera to record acts of the mundane and regular, which are often only witness to four walls, the artist will present a series of miniature activities and sequences performed on the stage of the everyday. Through documentation and re-enactment, the artist extends the screen out of the living room, engaging with the adjoining spaces of the house, to create a multi-roomed, yet singular, screen space. Carter is interested in the allure of the screen and seeks to create intimate and embodied encounters through the moving image.

Kieron Broadhurst @ APPLECROSS #1 29.3.13

You are invited to witness an invasion. Like a Tupperware party or an early morning visit from The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, it may nor may not be Art. Come, join another individual in creating something unique. A marvelous, magical, scientific and irrational adventure into the Mind. Magicians, hypnotists, comedians and strippers all use their viewers to complete their creative processes. Visit the astral plane, embark on a vision quest, meet your power animal and become a better person. Given the right tools, and the improper context, what will your imagination provide you with?

http://kieron-broadhurst.tumblr.com/