HOT COLD HEAVY LIGHT
Opening reception 5pm Fri 8 August
civicartbureau.com/exhibitions/hot-cold-heavy-light
What does it mean to create amid the momentum and mess of life? For artists Jacqueline Bradley, Rosalind Lemoh, Merryn Lloyd and Dionisia Salas, making isn’t separate from the everyday – it’s shaped by it.
At the core of these practices is a kind of material alchemy – a belief in the poetic potential of stuff. Stuff that is bodily, domestic, often ephemeral or discarded. Materials that are worked through repetitive physical gestures: stitching, layering, casting, printing, pouring, pressing.
There’s an intimacy of scale throughout the show, a sense of the hand not just as a tool but as an organ of care and curiosity. These are works that bear the imprint of days spanning children and studios, tending to others and carving out windows for one’s own making.
(from Camilla Wagstaff’s catalogue essay)