In Systems: Air and Water, coordinated by Noelene Lucas at Articulate project space 

Measurements: 250 Hx 2000 x2000 mm.

Materials: resin, water, duckweed, pond liner,

pond pump, bubble generating devices.

 

I constructed a pond whose surface was covered in bright green duck weed. At sporadic intervals a bubble breaks the surface, suggesting life below.

The density of the duckweed moves subtly in each instance, creating something of a moving colour field painting with swirls. The movement is something that catches the viewer on the periphery of their vision when passing. As often happens nature things can appear to be quiet, still with nothing happening until one pauses to observe.

Systems: Air & Water shows the work of artists Sue Callanan, Ann Graham, Noelene Lucas, Hilarie Mais, Debra Porch and Eugenia Raskopoulos.

 

Air & water are the elemental systems of all life forms – flora & fauna (including human). They display the interdependence & interconnection of all phenomena. All cellular life is embedded in the planetary systems of air & water (weather, precipitation, photosynthesis, respiration).

 

This exhibition explores and celebrates the multiple ways these often overlooked, but essential, forces of life interact and are interdependent. The artists will consider the perceptions, social understandings & insights that fall under this wide parameter of the “system” - system as structure, arrangement, network, complex, methods, frameworks.

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Some questions arise – how do we attach or make meaning in that which transpires between air and water? Is this the large mystery of the planet, or is it also the question of the heart and mind that can communicate beautiful and abstract concepts through objects, images and the senses? Statement by Noelene Lucas

 

The exhibition consisted of photography, video, installation & mixed media. More

 

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