Bridging traditional smithing techniques and contemporary metalworking approaches, Matters of Time: Contemporary Metal Practices will be shown in Artspace Mackay’s Main Gallery from April 18 to June 21.
Mayor Greg Williamson said it was tremendous to welcome this beautiful new exhibition to our Main Gallery.
“We are very fortunate to have the variety of exhibitions that travel through our gallery,” Mayor Williamson said.
“We have gone from Tom Moore’s amazing glass pieces in Natural Oddity to this group exhibition in metal,” he said.
“Art plays such an important role in a full and inclusive community. When art and culture thrive, the whole community prospers, and our regional pride gets a boost.”
The Matters of Time exhibition encompasses sculpture, furniture, drawing, jewellery and installation by 12 Australian artists and designers.
Curated by Catherine Woolley, the exhibition features new commissions and recent works from Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan, Elliot Bastianon, Bobby Corica, Wurrandan Marawili, Yioryios Papayioryiou, Vedika Rampal, Shireen Taweel, Kensuke Todo, Simone Tops, Zoë Veness and Augusta Vinall Richardson.
Also launching at Artspace Mackay on April 18 is Joshua Searle’s Poco a poco, se va lejos (Little by little, you go far).
Joshua Searle is an Australian Colombian artist whose practice explores memory, inheritance and the reclamation of cultural histories.
Artspace Mackay Director Tracey Heathwood said Joshua drew from research and lived experience to create painting and sculpture works that connect personal identity with broader diasporic narratives.
“Joshua’s major installation here at Artspace, will span two foyer walls,” Ms Heathwood said.
“A 17-metre, hand-painted wall that will accumulate daily repetitions of the phrase Poco a poco, se va lejos (Little by little, you go far), becoming both mantra and monument to persistence,” she said.
Judy Watson’s skeletons opened in the Foundation Gallery on April 11.
Ms Heathwood said this exhibition opened the closet doors to Australia’s skeletons and explored an alternative national narrative.
“Judy Watson is a Waanyi artist who explores controverted histories that provide moments of recognition for First Nations peoples,” she said.
“Her works discover buried evidence and undisclosed happenings which validate the mistruth of terra nullius and the continuation of Aboriginal resistance.”
Artspace Mackay is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am. For more information on the exhibitions visit artspacemackay.com.au