Image: Elise Stanley, Untitled, 2022. CMYK screenprint, 76 x 112 cm. Image courtesy of Fiona Little
Elise Stanley, Recurring Frames, 2022. Screen print on paper, 76 x 112 cm.
Bronte Bell, Samantha Corbett, Maximilian Gosling, Francis Kenna, Clare Jackson, Elise Stanley & Alex Lundy
Gallery 1
Friday 11 November - Sunday 27 November
The concept of time can be represented by many different models. However, these metaphors inevitably lose something essential to the experience of time.
The uncertain shape of time brings together works by seven Canberra-based artists who explore the experience of time across printmedia, textiles, painting and sculpture. Different temporal concepts, such as relative duration, memory, narrative and chronology, are explored through the artistsβ different perspectives and personal responses. These considerations expose the difficulty in representations of time, rejecting the idea that time is a line, proposing instead a branching field of different temporal rhythms and lived experiences. Time dilates and contracts, folding back on itself in memory or coalescing in the present of non-linear flows. Perhaps the problem of time is best understood as an open question, with no fixed answer or defined shape.
Francis Kenna is supported by an artsACT Homefront grant