HEAD UNDER WATER
- Danielle Clough
- Apr 1
- 2 min read
The show hosts work by Cynthia Edwards, Kristen McClarety and moi. Three artists working with process-driven mediums, exploring the transient nature of a body moving through space and examining the impact on its physicality, memory and form.
This exhibition brings together three artists working in process-driven mediums (hand-pulled original print, ceramics and embroidery) in response to a set of photographs of a body underwater, moving through a space. The theme that underpins the exhibition is the notion that energy or experience accumulates in a place, interacting with the environment and what happens there, both before and after the event. The artists have explored this idea and visually expressed their thoughts with a series of abstract works using colours and shapes that tell a story of a fleeting transfer of energy, an interaction with a space or the memory of a moment.
In some of the works, the viewer can make out the presence of human form, but in most, the viewer is left with an impression of movement and the residue of a moment. A brief, ephemeral instance captured by the artist, where the stimulus of the world drops away as if the artist is Head Under Water.
These works are a new exploration of how I use thread while weaving in my love for film photography and my obsessions with the mishap. (I wrote a bit about that here.) As I push myself to work more in abstraction, I find myself getting incrementally more sentimental. This work is an ode to throwing myself into the deep end. Leaning into expression and colour while referencing my film photo (belly) flops.
Please join us Sunday 6 April from 11:30 for the opening, or pop in before the 27th April to see the show at RK Contempory.
