Deadpan humour and unflinching honesty are hallmarks of emerging artists Raffi Butler and Ellie Ryan’s practice with their created works exploring the juxtaposition between playfulness and pain. Using diverse mediums, from painting and digital drawings to ceramics, sculpture and robotics, Butler and Ryan explore and question how we experience everyday life and interact with art.
The works displayed in their joint exhibition, Gratified, evoke an underlying discomfort. Butler’s ceramics and Ryan’s kinetic pieces are fragile and beautiful yet clinical in appearance, influenced by consumer culture and environmental concerns.
Raffi Butler and Ellie Ryan, Portrait of Raffi Butler. Photograph: Liam Butler. Courtesy the artist and Yarrila Arts and Museum, New South Wales
Yarrila Arts and Museum
25 May to 21 July 2024
New South Wales
