Sydney Exhibition

Opens 19 May / 6 – 8pm
Exhibition Runs / 20 – 30 May 2021

Artists / Tiana Rose, Clementine McIntosh, Tilda Clarke & Sadhbha Cockburn

This new exhibition brings together four artists examining the natural environment, their place on country and the shared ephemerality of the body with materials. Utilising biodegradable matter from sediment and bark to blood and blackberry ink, these works weave together the specific sites where raw materials are collected with the bodies of their makers. The artworks range from suggestive landscape paintings and stitched photographs, to sewn sculptures.

The processes used to make these works combine the alchemical with the medical and the domestic with the traditional. They reflect the varied sources of knowledge from which the artists seek the understanding of the internal and external environments. In addition, they speak to the artists’ places as makers in the current climate of combustion, in which we have been dissected from our place in nature. Ultimately, these works aim to invite an acknowledgement of country, and a grounding in place and self.

Clementine Belle McIntosh

Clementine’s current photographic works explore documenting organically-produced paintings within their natural habitat. Large linen canvases, made from matter surrounding her, they are inherently with, of, and in the landscape. Framed in her home country of Gilgandra, NSW, the visceral paintings become like figures posing in a landscape, sharing with the viewer a sense of being one with the environment around them.

Tiana Rose

Tiana’s current practise explores impressions of D’harawal land using photography and video to document processes of artmaking. Employing traditional methods of alchemy to produce natural pigments from weeds, berries, and eucalypts, her work is an enactment and embodiment of place. Her recent series, displayed here, is a documentation of works created by the dam near her Sydney home. Allowing the water, heat, and river pigments to permeate canvas, they are capsules of time that demonstrate the grace and trust required in artmaking.
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Sadhbha Cockburn

Sadhbha Cockburn is currently completing her Masters of Fine Art at the National Art School. With a background in science and medicine, she takes a transdisciplinary approach to her art practice. Her current work is investigating environmental empathy, using paperbark to explore grief and the connection of the body to land.

Tilda Clarke

Firmly grounded in a multidisciplinary and exploratory approach to creating work, Tilda Clarke’s practice aims to find the common threads between performance, video, tattooing, painting and sculpture. Giving insight into the unbound therapeutic potential of art making, Her practice maps both physical and emotional landscapes through the use of natural, and found materials. She aims to unravel the impacts trauma has on the body as she explores themes of psychology, sexuality and feminism derived from personal experience.