Poetic Forms at Bundoora Homestead is a group exhibition with a more unusual link connecting the works: the six exhibitors – Renee Cosgrave, Merryn Lloyd, Tom Reddington, Stephanie Stott, Sally Wemyss, and Megan Wyke all attended the same school and have reunited four years after graduation to explore the ongoing relationship between their work.
In Renee Cosgrave’s work, rules are implemented to create a structure for abstract art making. With an interest in painting interacting with space through installation or site-specific practice, Cosgrave uses an interplay of chance and considered decisions to create her work.
Tom Reddington looks at open possibilities in contrast to the consumption of the status quo, making works that are allegorical of human organisation.
Stephanie Stott creates symbolic abstract representations of how she experiences the world around her. She explores personal understandings of how she processes the world, often through mapping and grid structures to consider complexities of certain events, people, relationships and concepts.
Similarly, Sally Wemyss uses drawing as tool to reveal personal thoughts and feelings by mapping thoughts and drawing connections between ideas. Having recently finished a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Work, Wemyss is interested in social work theories and combing this with art.
Common conceptual threads exist through the varied works, such as an interest in the complexity of social structures, exploring personal experiences, mapping, abstraction and chance. Most prominently through, Poetic Forms illustrates an enthusiasm and determination to explore the world through art – a passion that has brought these artists back together to reflect on their shared past and future directions.
To view all the artists’ work, visit the website.
Bundoora Homestead
To Jan 20
Melbourne
Image: Poetic Forms, installation shot, 2012
