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Stockroom Kyneton, ceramic gallery
08 May / 20 June 2021
ALICHIA VAN RHIJN
Smoke Signals
Solo Exhibition
Smoke Signals by Alichia van Rhijn, presents ceramic and bronze works that developed during the Melbourne lockdown of 2020. Anthropomorphic forms investigate phenomenological notions, alluding to personal and shared experience, memory and trauma. Through the use of distilled minimalist forms, symbolic and ritualistic totems are arranged throughout the space, hoping to initiate pause and contemplation.
van Rhijn’s installations catalogue her experience of displacement through material investigation, where memory and experience of place are key elements. ‘Making as thinking’ paired with an experimental approach to process and technology underpins the creation of objects that float between the real and a child-like whimsical world that elicits an urge to interact and play.
Alichia van Rhijn is a South African born Australian artist and a recent graduate of the National Art School in Sydney. With a background in architecture and design she has a passion for creating sculptural and installation-based objects and forms that examine memory, trace, trauma, experience and loss. Solo shows include; A Sense Of Being, Gallerysmith (2019); The Middle Distance, Boom Gallery (2019); and My Mother Told Me (Never Wear Pink And Red Together, Stockroom Kyneton (2020).