Prenelle
Gallery
presents a group exhibition of 10 artists working in painting, photography
and video – RAPT.
Axel
Antas’ Snow Angel video is installed outside on the
deck, gigantic in scale but faint or faded, a ghostly residue of
a forgotten game, or a lost faith.
Sam
Dargan paints scenarios depicting abject archetypes of
men, pathetic and vain, spiteful, forlorn and lost, but wickedly
funny.
Andrew
Ekins' colourful and textured paintings intrude on the
viewer’s domain, a constantly transforming surface which is
sharp but inviting, chaotic but structured, landscaped yet wild.
Eric
shows photographic work which explores the compulsive fascination
of destruction and human vulnerability to catastrophe.
Saam
Farahmand takes visual sequences from movies, television
programmes and original video footage and re-edits them to be rhythmically
lip synchronised with music to create an incongruous funny and unnerving
juxtaposition of cultural elements.
Sarah
Jones maps a crowd scene with text. Visual elements are
depicted by words written in coloured Dymo-tape emanating outwards
from a newspaper photo, creating a flow and rhythm of marks and
text mimetic of the fluid dynamism and interrelationships of crowds.
Chew
Ling Lee’s painting of mutated organic pods evoke
a dreamlike reproductive landscape.
Will
Martyr paints intensely colourful images of architectural
details, abstracted and iconified.
Tim
Meacham uses elastic, feathers, water and light to create
a kinetic sculpture that streaks across the ceiling of the gallery.
Zoe
Mendelson’s drawings and paintings suggest unfolding
narratives of female fantasy, layered with sexual imagery, some
encoded and hidden, some disturbing and uncomfortable and others
playfully colourful. |