Silent Raptures
MEL DIXON
empty hands (tulips), 2020
coloured pencil on giclée photographic print, Victorian ash custom timber framing.
58.5 x 41 cm
photo documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures curated by Angela Connor
Stockroom Kyneton, all galleries
13 June / 26 July
Silent Raptures
BELLE BASSIN, JEREMY BAKKER, ADAM BOYD, MEL DIXON, JASPER JACOBSEN & LUCY FOSTER
curated by ANGELA CONNOR
Silent Raptures presents the work of six artists exploring presence and absence. The works form a collective of perennial questions relating to time, mortality and meaning.
Inspired by David Batchelor’s The Luminous and the Grey, the exhibition is divided into zones of colour. The grey and monochromatic palette of Adam Boyd, Jeremy Bakker and Jasper Jacobsen together in one room, and the intensely hued works of Belle Bassin, Lucy Foster and Mel Dixon occupying separate spaces, marking the dualities between life and death.
Drawing reference from surrealism, theosophy and 20th-century literature, the works range from durational drawings and ghoulish narratives to biomorphic paintings and ready-made sculptural interventions. Together, they form six contemporary points of view that explore the uncertainty of meaning within a finite existence.
Silent Raptures
MEL DIXON
Silent Rapture (installation), 2020
documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
MEL DIXON
Silent Rapture (installation), 2020
documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
MEL DIXON
empty hands (her horizon), 2020
empty hands (the future), 2020
coloured pencil on paper, Victorian ash custom timber framing
58.5 x 41 cm each|
documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
MEL DIXON
empty hands (her horizon) (detail), 2020
coloured pencil on paper, Victorian ash custom timber framing
58.5 x 41 cm
documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
JEREMY BAKKER, JASPER JACOBSEN, ADAM BOYD
Silent Rapture (installation), 2020
documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
JEREMY BAKKER
Manifest density, 2018
Reconfigured drinking glasses. Each glass melted down and cast into the shape of its negative space
dimensions variable
Silent Raptures
JEREMY BAKKER
Manifest density, 2018
Reconfigured drinking glasses. Each glass melted down and cast into the shape of its negative space
dimensions variable
Silent Raptures
JEREMY BAKKER
Untitled, 2009-2018
pen marks on paper.
68.5 x 91 cm
Silent Raptures
JASPER JACOBSEN
The Depths, 2017
framed Giclée prints (11 pieces)
50 x 620 x 4 cm
Silent Raptures
ADAM BOYD
Smile Malvolio, 2020
ceramics with pencil, pen and watercolour on paper, marine ply on concrete
43 x 280 x 140 cm
photo documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
JEREMY BAKKER, JASPER JACOBSEN, ADAM BOYD
Silent Rapture (installation), 2020
documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
ADAM BOYD
Only the Wurst has two, 2020
acrylics on acrylic panels (three panels)
129 x 345 cm
photo documentation: Lucy Foster
ADAM BOYD
Only the Wurst has two (details), 2020
acrylics on acrylic panels (three panels)
129 x 345 cm
photo documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
JEREMY BAKKER, JASPER JACOBSEN, ADAM BOYD
Silent Rapture (installation), 2020
documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
ADAM BOYD
Smile Malvolio (detail), 2020
ceramics with pencil, pen and watercolour on paper, marine ply on concrete
43 x 280 x 140 cm
photo documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
JASPER JACOBSEN
Black Hole (Mourning and Melancholia), 2018
The entirety of Mourning and Melancholia by Sigmund Freud photocopied onto itself, framed
44 x 35.5 cm
MEL DIXON, JASPER JACOBSEN, LUCY FOSTER
Silent Rapture (installation), 2020
documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
MEL DIXON
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own (Panther, London, 1979), 2019
giclée digital photographic print, Victorian ash custom timber framing.
29 x 20 cm
Silent Raptures
MEL DIXON
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own (Penguin, Australia, 2013), 2019
giclée digital photographic print, Victorian ash custom timber framing.
29 x 20 cm
Silent Raptures
JASPER JACOBSEN
The Looted Palm, 2017
leather glove, wasp nest
21 x 14.5 x 6 cm
Silent Raptures
JASPER JACOBSEN
The Anatomy of Memory, 2019
Sliced child’s school case
24 x 38 x 4 cm
Silent Raptures
LUCY FOSTER
portrait, 2020
chromogenic handprint on gloss, stained Tasmanian oak frame, edition of 3
25 x 20 cm
photo documentation: Lucy Foster
LUCY FOSTER
Silent Rapture (installation), 2020
documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
LUCY FOSTER
red fissure, 1/1, 2020
chromogenic lustre paper exposed to flame, stained Tasmanian Oak frame, unique print
25 x 20 cm
photo documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
BELLE BASSIN
Silent Rapture (installation), 2020
documentation: Lucy Foster
Silent Raptures
BELLE BASSIN
Form 9,1, 2020
acrylic and oil on linen
315 x 220 cm
Silent Raptures
LUCY FOSTER
rotten sun, 2020
Video Still, duration: 6 min., edition of 3
photo documentation: Lucy Foster