The {Empty Set} was a group show of I took part in recently with several other artists including Belinda Sinclair, Karen Kaese, Gwenn Tasker, Carolyn McKenzie Craig, Kat Sawyer, Alex Gillies, Heidi Stevens, Ky Curran, Louise Irving and Nathaniel Cliff.
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Media included jewellery, ceramics, installation, sculpture, works on paper. A variety of printmakers in the group also ensured a variety of printmaking techniques were displayed – including woodblocks, aluminium and solar plate etchings, screenprints and artist books.
All of the artists explored notions of liminality in a unique array of ways. A loose definition of liminality might be defined as the space in between light and dark, life and death, one reality and another. A place of spiritual uncertainty and/or transformation.
For this exhibition I created series of five aluminium etchings with watercolour backgrounds that focused on the existential question: ‘What if Andy Warhol was reincarnated as Shroedinger’s Cat?’. I got really fascinated with the concept of Shroedinger’s cat and the idea that something living could exist as a living and dead entity at the same time.
After an intense couple of months of living and breathing printing in Impress studio in the Brisbane heat my series finally reached a state I was happy enough to display. I discovered that the aluminium plates, while fast, cheap and convenient to etch, have the frustrating drawback of wearing down as they are printed. Which is all well and good if your print and your colours all turn out perfectly after a few prints, but is devastating if you keep pushing and pulling only to discover that the plate has lost much of the detail and tone.
The exhibition opened at 6pm on 2 December at White Canvas Gallery with a special performance on the night by Collapsed Ankles (aka Lance Sinclair) and ran until 6 December.
We received a nice write up from http://brisbane.concreteplayground.com.au/event/40956/the-%7Bempty-set%7D.htm
