TO MOVE THROUGH  

Production and Curation of Research-based exhibtion   
2022 group exhibtion, University of Newcastle Gallery, Newcastle

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images by Edwinda Richards 

THE SHORT:

The group exhibition TO MOVE THROUGH showcases your artistic practice as a "vision of the future". While we wait for the people in charge, we act now. This is shown in your work by the way you move through public space. Your existence and practice have a social-political charge.

The featured artwork interprets materiality, the body, safety, language and the mundane as a way to interrogate the accepted range of movement, expression and way of being in public space. These works are a quasi-blue-print for the future that refutes current systems and hierarchical forms of “knowing”.

THE LONG:

The group exhibition TO MOVE THROUGH is a preparation for what's to come, an artists’ contingency, for the contemporary frictions of public spaces. The invited artists are living out their hypothetical solutions to social-political issues that are not yet widely actionable through their practice. A mirror into different ways of being, listening, thinking and feeling. These artists test the boundaries and the censorship of themselves and their practice, within the fences, suburban sprawl and oceans that make up ‘public space’.

The spatial, durational, digital, painted, photographic, and experimental works of the artists present an offering of personal, cultural, and political ontologies. The framework of TO MOVE THROUGH gives equal credence to the informal and impulsive as to the ‘academic’ and ‘technical’. The gallery as a public space provides a coming together of ideas, processes, and outcomes as individuals expand on their primary practice as an impromptu collective.


In a step away from public artworks of the past and their promise of the absolute, monument and permanence, this exhibition underscores pliability in opposition to existing “immovable” structures. These artists’ work speculates the future’s relationship to architecture, ecology, society and place. Tempor

ality, the melancholic and the collective are used as care methods and actions without imposing social pressures, authority and bureaucracy.

The feature artwork interprets materiality, the body, safety, language and the mundane as a way to interrogate the accepted range of movement, expression and way of being in public space. These works are a quasi-blue-print for the future that refutes current systems and hierarchical forms of “knowing”.

CATALOUGE OF WORKS

All images by Edwinda Richards

Jasmin Seale

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1. Jasmin Seale
Embalming process 2023
single channel video

2. Jasmin Seale
600kg of Raw Flank Meat 2023
seaweed
1050 x 980 x 2 mm

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3. Converge/Diverge
(Holly Macdonald & Rosslyn Wythes)
Personal Space 2019-2023

participatory performance with clay

Georgia Hill

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4. Georgia Hill
I Have No Idea Where I Was 2019
photograph of acrylic on canvas, string, stick,
Andalucía, Spain.

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5. Ana Carolina Navarrete Rojas
35mm photographs 2022

MILESTONE

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(Left )
6. MILESTONE
do you like what I’m saying? 2023
video

Atita Verghese

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(right)
7. Atita Verghese
Photographed by Vaibhav Gupta
Atita 2022

digital Photograph and video 

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8. Ellie Hannon & Julie Hannon
The Shelter 2019 - ongoing
various textiles, steel wire, eyelets
2230 x 1560 x 2100 cm

Abbey Rich

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9. Abbey Rich 
Desire Lines 2023
acrylic on board, powder coated mild steel
62 x 93 cm

10. Abbey Rich
Infrastructure 2023
powder coated mild steel
53 x 33 x 47 cm

11. Dear Anushka
Memory 2023
spray on Mattress Fabric (cotton)
130cm x 180 cm

Peta Berghofer

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12. Peta Berghofer
Objects I see myself in 2021
stained porcelain
10 x 6.5 x 1 cm

13. Peta Berghofer
Objects I see myself in (Super Air) 2021
earthenware
15 x 13 x 1 cm

14. Peta Berghofer
First Brick Then Vessel #3 (adapted) 2022
stained porcelain
65 x 24 x 7 cm

Jasmine Miikika Craciun

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15. Jasmine Miikika Craciun
Untitled 2023
mohair

George Goodnow

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Brontë Naylor

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Hannah Cheetham (Built In Kind)

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Telimenka Brucko-Stempkowski

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George Goodnow

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George Goodnow

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Laurie Oxenford

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