NICHOLAS BURRIDGE
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Nicholas Burridge draws upon practice-based research to unpack the complex relationship between industrialization and nature. His work interrogates the term ‘Terraforming’ focusing attention upon the ways that humans are re-engineering the earth and our current geologic epoch the Anthropocene. Many of Burridge’s projects are site specific with multiple experimental outcomes, this has led to him having research residencies at Melbournes Living Museum of the West, Canberra Glassworks, The Quarry and Jacks Magazine a heritage munitions warehouse. In all these instances the aim has been to reveal latent narratives and metaphors that are embedded in materials.
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Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
07 October/ 12 November 2023NICHOLAS BURRIDGE
Stone ToolsThe oldest examples of human technology ‘Stone Tools’ will be some of the longest-lasting anthropic artefacts. With this starting point the artworks included in this exhibition interrogate modern materials and their inherent instability. Now favouring steel over stone, the ability of materials to resist entropy has reduced and with that their ability to become artefacts. Materials within this exhibition have been selected because of their stability be that mechanical or chemical resistance and those properties have been exploited. This exhibition contrasts modern technologies and materials with ancient ones to interrogate which narratives will remain when we’ve gone.
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Glass Artefact (chisel), 3/3, 2023
glass, edition of 3
2.4 x 2.5 x 25 cm
$ 2,000 or $200 over 10 months with Art Money
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Glass Artefact (hammer), 2/3, 2023
glass
6 x 15 x 40 cm
$ 3,500 or $350 over 10 months with Art Money
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Glass Artefact (rebar), 1/3, 2023
glass, museum wall stand, edition of 3
4 x 4 x 60 cm
$ 2,750 or $275 over 10 months with Art Money
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Load-bearing, 2023
mild steel
4000 x 3 x 3 cm
$ 1,250 or $125 over 10 months with Art Money
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This is why we can't have nice things, 2023
mild steel, plaster, salt water
can be sold separately
4 x 4 x 160cm (crowbar) $ 1750
7 x 50 x 200 (plinth) $ 900
$ 2,650 or $275 over 10 months with Art Money
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tipping load, 2021
stainless steel, cable copper, basalt
30 x 40 x 10cm
SOLD
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What's left after skyscrapers fall, 2023
glass, museum wall stand
60 x 40 x 4 cm
SOLD
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explosive forming no.1, 2021
copper, gunpowder residue, nails
20 x 15 x 3.5cm (each)
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Glass Fossil (unique piece), 2023
glass, museum wall stand
30 x 15 x 8 cm
$ 2,750 or $275 over 10 months with Art Money
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