Curators: Ellie Ray and Astrid Joyce
Opening: Friday 4 May, 6pm
Artists: Anthony Johnson, Ed King, Jacob Leary, Christopher Liaubon, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Adam Rish, George Smiley, Pip Stafford
The Devonport Regional Gallery presents a fun and exciting exhibition of innovative contemporary works by Tasmanian and mainland based artists. Curated in-house Moving Parts draws inspiration from the movement of physical bodies within time-space relations and the alliances and discords that occur between outmoded and current technologies. These ideas have been explored and variously interpreted by the artists exhibited in Moving Parts.
The exhibited works focus on areas ranging from the machine age to our current technological era and include sculpture, video, live computer output, drawing, painting, screen-printing and mixed media assemblage.
The curators have selected art works that invoke a sense of ‘play’ for visitors. The objects and ideas presented in the show combine outmoded technologies alongside new technologies, communication systems and representations of physical movement. The exhibition ‘prowls around the edges’ of where we have been, where we are now, and what the future might be like in a rapidly growing, constructed world.
Two NW artists are represented in the exhibition: Ed King and George Smiley along with five artists based in the south of the state and one artist residing in NSW.
Several artists will present a floor talk at the Gallery on Saturday 5 May, 11am. The Gallery has also produced a catalogue containing additional information about the exhibiting artists, available for purchase at the Gallery.
For more information please contact:
Astrid Joyce Education and Public Programs Officer Devonport Regional Gallery
