GUILLAUME DILLEE

Magali Gentric ·

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery one
08 June / 14 July 2024

GUILLAUME DILLEE
Dystopia (Selected Works)

“The title Dystopia refers to the dreamlike quality of my works, a conceptual world where the relationship between Man and Nature is perpetually at odds. My creations reflect the limits of mankind concerning the expansive biodiversity around him. I delve into this paralleled concept through the exploration of man’s relationship with their natural environment, interpretations of plant organics, and the ambiguous relationship between botanical toxic beauty and danger.

Upon my arrival to Australia ten years ago I was exposed to a whole new world of natural environments and complicated intertwinings between man and nature. The Australian environment was a revelation of a unique palette of colours, light, shapes, biodiversity, flora, fauna, and natural disasters. I found myself intrigued by the contradictory beauty yet ferocity of Australian flora and fauna. This dichotomy became a central theme in my work, prompting me to examine the delicate balance between attraction and danger inherent in the botanical world.

Challenged by climate change more than most places, Australian land and people are frequently confronted with the destructive forces of natural disasters. In this context, I explored the complexities of coexistence between man and nature, focusing on the power dynamics that naturally arise between the two forces. On one side is man, who exploits natural resources, and on the other is nature, which, despite everything, regenerates beyond all expectations.

As a self-taught artist, I view my studio as a laboratory for experimentation between various mediums, techniques, and contrasts to create unusual visual compositions. I draw on what I observe, what I hear and what I feel to create elements that find their place in my creative subconscious. Successive layers of various mediums build upon each other, crafting the desired effect. Enamel or ink are applied in a spontaneous, definitive gesture, like Japanese Shodo (calligraphy technique), embracing the irreversibility of each mark.”

-  Guillaume Dillée, 2024

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JOSHUA COCKING

Magali Gentric ·

A foreign body, 2024, oil on canvas, framed, 61 x 61 cm

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
16 March / 21 April 2024

JOSHUA COCKING
A foreign body

During Cocking’s years living in remote Indigenous communities, he was always conscious of being an outsider. That despite Cocking’s good intentions, he was an interloper in an unfamiliar place. These paintings capture implausible orbs floating in the landscape, attempting to blend into their surroundings, reflecting and absorbing colour. But ultimately, they remain a foreign body; they do not belong.  The Kimberley works represent Joshua Cocking’s ongoing attempts to immerse in a country and culture that is not his own. Conversely, the landscapes of south-western Victoria where he grew up are now also foreign; a sense of belonging eroded over half a lifetime lived away.

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KEZ HUGHES

Magali Gentric ·

Heather B. Swann, HeavyHead, Collection Art Gallery of South Australia 2016, 2023, oil on linen, silver finish frame, 51 x 51 cm

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery one
22 July / 27 August 2023

KEZ HUGHES
You Never Got Me Right

In an age where digital images dominate our experience, Kez Hughes’ paintings are lovingly rendered to communicate stillness, and beauty, and provide a new recording of artworks lost to their respective histories and locations.
Through repositioning and recreating paintings from existing documentary images of art, Hughes contemplates ideas of originality, authenticity, and authorship.
You never got me right brings together painted adaptations of works by Australian Artists including Lucina Lane, Heather b Swann, Olah Cohn, and Nat Ryan amongst others.

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GEORGINA PROUD

Magali Gentric ·

Crescent, 2023, stoneware, glaze, sea glass, 18 x 21 x 6.5 cm

Stockroom Kyneton, ceramic space
22 July / 27 August 2023

GEORGINA PROUD
Flux

Flux is an exploration of materiality that investigates the chemical reactions and transformation of materials that occur during the ceramic-making and firing process. These works combine a range of materials and techniques that I have been experimenting with over the past four years including the incorporation of novel materials, such as sea glass, seeds, and perlite, into different clay bodies. The interplay of the introduced materials and the clay creates a unique process of development.

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JARRAD MARTYN

Magali Gentric ·

Refuge, 2022, oil on canvas, 89 x 91 cm.

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
04 February / 12 March 2023

JARRAD MARTYN
Polar Front

Polar Front explores humanity's relationship with the natural environment through intersecting family and world histories. Martyn's inspiration for this new body of work is through film photographs his Father took whilst working as a helicopter pilot, based at Casey Station in Antarctica during the 1980s.

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HONOR FREEMAN

Magali Gentric ·

HONOR FREEMAN
Absorb, 2021, porcelain, gold lustre, 5 x 24 x 13cm
(photographer: Grant Hancock)

Stockroom Kyneton, ceramic space
04 December 2021 - 09 January 2022

HONOR FREEMAN
In Search Of Ordinary

Honor Freeman’s practice reveals a careful observation of the domestic realm and the ordinariness of the everyday. The work conveys ideas of material transformation. The transmutation of common, unremarkable domestic objects into sculptures that belie their materiality and purpose – an ordinary alchemy.
Working primarily in porcelain Freeman harnesses the mimetic qualities inherent in clay through the magic of slip casting. The works playfully interact with ideas of liquid-made solids. The porcelain casts echo the original objects; the liquid slip turns solid and becomes a memory of a past from a ghost object.

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