is it Black or White ....... 2021

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Stanley Street Gallery is delighted to present Is it Black or White ... a contemporary art exhibition introducing emerging Sydney graduates.

13 - 29 May

Join us in Darlinghurst to engage in the work of five artists at the forefront of their careers: Claire Welch, Sian Kelly, Brigitte Podrasky, Meredith Cravey and Emma Pinsent. These young graduates are ambitious and unafraid of category; material, conceptual or otherwise. Playing with their practice and engaging with the unpredictability of material experimentation, they carve out their own space as artists in Australia. 

What gets lost in our pursuit of definition?

Where do the smudges, echoes, the illegible shadows go?

How can one grasp the in-between, the spaces beyond construct ... what of the things that won't fit into category, they won't make sense, they refuse and push definition.

They fracture dichotomies, bend materials, and make new ones. Multiplying the shadows of grey. 

Claire Welch's gestural prints, 'Lump City' investigate the dislocation between body and self; the black ink on paper becoming a site for the artist to explore the frictional space in-between. Sian Kelly, on the other hand, chooses to push the boundary of conventional printmaking, exploring their body as both medium and instrument of western corporeal symbolism. Their autobiographical sculptural series, 'Residues' extend philosophical and phenomenological embodiment of gender.

The sculptures, 'As Luck May Have It' by Meredith Cravey texturally explore the notion of entropy and experiment with the potential materiality of sugar. Brigitte Podrasky's intimate ceramic pieces, 'Someplace In- between' capture the artist's process of mark making in collaboration with clay. Her background in music and interactive installation informs an interest by giving autonomy to the improvisational, kinetic and instinctual.

In 'Compost Whispers', 'Admist Fallen Mallow', and 'Weird Becomings', Emma Pinsent generates an ecological language that considers the hybridity of our current world as a combination of human, man-made and organic interactions. The use of waste, paper pulp, and organic inks from the natural world allows her to reimagine objects and landscapes that oscillate between the real and fantasy.

The exhibition seeks to liberate forms, materials, medium and bodies. Collectively these artists modulate encounters with the 'in-between', the undulating multiplicities, and seeks to fracture dichotomies, blending materials to make new ones. They ask, what trembles at the intersections?