2024
24 June – 12 July
An Invitation to Dance, (group show) PS Arts Space + Cool Change
With artists Jemi Gale, Audrey Tan, Kristen Brownfield, Clare Wohlnick and Jess Tan.
An invitation to dance is a group exhibition that brings together five early-career multidisciplinary artists, each led by material curiosity, experimentation and practice-led research. The starting point for the project is an imaginary scene of musical notes levitating through the air. This will be a group exhibition centring around a methodology of ‘pottering’, a practice I have developed through my own way of working in the studio. Each artist in this exhibition is in essence a potterer – we are driven by a shared ethics of material consumption through slowness, re-use and contemplation. Pottering is an embodied thinking that eventually leads to outcomes through spending time in the studio surrounded by matter, processing, daydreaming, re-organising or simply placing things together to see what just goes; an evolving lingering thought translated into material outputs. Pottering is likened to when you’re not doing anything in particular, but divergences occur in a generative space; a type of unfocused thinking and working that playfully engages with and reassembles matter. It can be valued as an alternative form of labour-production, through its slow trickling but progressive rhythm, which seeks to challenge the working method of efficiency and productivity within capitalism. The introduction of slowness and the sustainable sourcing of reusable materials is a tactic that places less emphasis on extractive value and outcome. Pottering is a thought bubble – it invites us to contemplate alternate ways of moving through the world, with new intentionality around time, what we value, and how we consume resources. – Jess Tan (Curator)

2022
24 June – 12 July
Text Tile, (group show) Caves, Melbourne/Narrm

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2022
27 May – 18 June
Filter Paintings, Cool Change Contemporary, Perth/Boorloo

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