Look at this stuff, isn’t it neat?!, 2016. Exhibition Documentation. Gaffa Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Au.
Look at this stuff isn’t it neat!? is a coming-out party for the leftover ‘stuff’ of contemporary photographic practice. Considering the current state of photography’s material presence – that is its status as a cultural material - this is a celebration for photographs that exceed distinct boundaries of photographic convention. The photographs in this exhibition are confused, mismatched and eclectic, playfully naïve and flamboyant. Each work neither subscribes nor unsubscribes from the traditional conventions of the photographic medium.
The artist is 24, trans-neuro-queer, an Australian and a Mauritian, a member of the millennial generation. They are a synthesis of by-products leftover from their forebears. They identify as neither one and all simultaneously.
EMERGING 2017, Gosfrod Emerging Art Prize, 2017. Exhibition Documentation. Gosford Reginal Gallery, Gosford, NSW, Au.
The Emerging competition is a vibrant exhibition of work by early career artists. Entries were received from artists across New South Wales, aged from 18 to 30, who proposed a body of work for consideration. The eight selected finalists represent excellence in their chosen area and are all to be congratulated.
The resulting exhibition gives the audience a fresh insight into the future of the visual arts. Emerging 2017 includes work that challenges the traditional conventions for displaying artwork, tests the boundaries of the gallery space, reincarnates obsolete technology and reinterprets traditional modes of artmaking. The 2017 exhibition includes performance, digital media, immersive installations, painting and drawing.
Emerging is different to most art competitions as it gives the finalists an opportunity to show their work within context. The artists have space to show a series of work, or in the case of several of this year’s finalist, an immersive installation. The ability of the artists to convey meaning through the relationship between works, and the physicality of the gallery space, is an important aspect in how the prize is judged.
2017 is the eighth time the emerging competition has been held and we are pleased to increase the first prize this year to $5,000, continuing our commitment to provide opportunities for young artists.
Exhibition Catalogue.