Nancy Downes uses tactile materials, light and space to create immersive, enveloping works to highlight her interest in the many layers that make us human. ‘Between/Beyond’ spotlights grief, and how material and movement can transmute this emotion as something that is active and processal.
Two large-scale kinetic works impose on the physical space of the audience, moving and contorting rhythmically, informing awareness of the self, and the physical responses to the agony of despair.
Nancy Downes, Present Absent (detail), 2015, shock cord, felt, Perspex, upholstery nails, gouache, dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Paper Mountain, Western Australia
Paper Mountain
8 to 23 April, 2017
Western Australia
