Curated by Amanda Rowell, and featuring works by: Marley Dawson, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Matthew Hopkins, Emily Hunt, Tim Schultz, and Raquel Welch.

Exhibition Dates: 1 May – 17 May 2008

Gonadal inclination is on the decline in the original amusement zone. The slumbering brainchild is concussed and abandons all pre-programmed language to riddles. We are left to process life’s rich pageant with dumbed-down neuronal and emotional apparatus and tinker with schizophrenic tools in order to assemble meaning. Memorials – flashbacks in the story department – are witnesses to system’s upheaval. Imagination compensates across the memory gap.

Amidst the ruin, the thought factory, a mechanical and apparently risk-laden contraption processes incessantly. It conveys discrepancies between work and play, a nuts-and-bolts-type scenario constructed via the difference between effort and effortlessness, alternating between building an empire against and giving in to sometimes agreeable, sometimes disagreeable forces.

The subject is adrift in a world not firmly located. Substance and the limits and comparative scales of things are fully negotiable. Fluids emanate from the medium. Eggs, classical architecture etc. are equally fragile forms. The structure of the eye is part of the structure of the brain. In a fit of decoration, architecture gives birth to furniture.

Language is architecture. The variable product of the combinative function. Mottos are props, signposts by which to navigate personal inclinations and flag sympathies within the heart of things. A face – an edifice – answers a question. It adorns the gates of exalted memories. It rearranges things to find new meaning. Living has been only due to the kindness of others.

Amanda Rowell

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This exhibition was initiated by and developed for exhibition at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
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Agatha Gothe-Snape Special Pedestal ? No Answers, 2008; timber, sawn paintings, found boxes; 271 x 142 x 90 cm; enquire
Agatha Gothe-Snape Special Pedestal ? No Answers, 2008
timber, sawn paintings, found boxes
271 x 142 x 90 cm
Matthew Hopkins Self Portrait as a Guilty Catholic Brain 2, 2008; plywood, timber, speakers, stereo, cd, socks, powerboards, plasticine, plastic eyes, plastic bag; figure; 220 x 100 cm; enquire
Matthew Hopkins Self Portrait as a Guilty Catholic Brain 2, 2008
plywood, timber, speakers, stereo, cd, socks, powerboards, plasticine, plastic eyes, plastic bag
figure; 220 x 100 cm
Agatha Gothe-Snape Enough and other organisations, 2007; from the series (detail); acrylic on ply, sawn paintings, timber, steel weights, casters, handles; 6 objects, each 240 x 100 x 65 cm; enquire
Agatha Gothe-Snape Enough and other organisations, 2007
from the series (detail)
acrylic on ply, sawn paintings, timber, steel weights, casters, handles
6 objects, each 240 x 100 x 65 cm
Matthew Hopkins A Message from the Wet Brain to the Healthy Brain of the Tropics, 2008; acrylic on canvas and canvas boards, 13 pieces; various dimensions; enquire
Matthew Hopkins A Message from the Wet Brain to the Healthy Brain of the Tropics, 2008
acrylic on canvas and canvas boards, 13 pieces
various dimensions
Matthew Hopkins Hammerhead 2 (Beating the Brainchild to Sleep), 2007; digital video, 3 minutes, 9 seconds; Edition of 5 + AP 1; enquire
Matthew Hopkins Hammerhead 2 (Beating the Brainchild to Sleep), 2007
digital video, 3 minutes, 9 seconds
Edition of 5 + AP 1
Agatha Gothe-Snape Ego (Picture Plane Slow Dance), 2008; digital video; Edition of 5; enquire
Agatha Gothe-Snape Ego (Picture Plane Slow Dance), 2008
digital video
Edition of 5
Tim Schultz The Broken Egg, 2008; acrylic on canvas; 285 x 625 cm; enquire
Tim Schultz The Broken Egg, 2008
acrylic on canvas
285 x 625 cm
Marley Dawson Big one liner, 2008; timber, conveyor belt, plastic rollers, electrics, brick; 250 x 570 x 290 cm; enquire
Marley Dawson Big one liner, 2008
timber, conveyor belt, plastic rollers, electrics, brick
250 x 570 x 290 cm
Emily Hunt and Raquel Welch OP, 2008; publication, 13 pages; enquire
Emily Hunt and Raquel Welch OP, 2008
publication, 13 pages
Agatha Gothe-Snape Big Time Trouble, 2008; sawn paintings; 14 pieces; dimensions variable; enquire
Agatha Gothe-Snape Big Time Trouble, 2008
sawn paintings
14 pieces; dimensions variable