Ker­rie Poli­ness | Characters

  • Characters, installation view, courtesy Haydens

Char­ac­ters

5 April to 4 May, 2024
Hay­dens

Hay­dens is pleased to present Char­ac­ters, a group exhi­bi­tion fea­tur­ing a selec­tion of Australia’s lead­ing con­cep­tu­al draw­ing practitioners.


Tra­vers­ing diverse themes such as automa­tism, con­nec­tiv­i­ty, per­for­ma­tiv­i­ty, and trans­la­tion, Char­ac­ters visu­alis­es ideas as mate­r­i­al. Tak­ing form in a vari­ety of medi­ums, these drawn works are char­ac­ter­is­tic of fixed points in time. What we see is a trace, or an arti­fact of a spe­cif­ic cul­mi­na­tion of events, and in some cas­es the act of inter­pret­ing this residue is the focus of inter­est. What is seen is the result of a sus­tained engage­ment in draw­ing as a method of com­mu­ni­cat­ing beyond lan­guage.

Some­times it is the out­come of an event, a sym­bol of lin­guis­tic expres­sion, or the instruc­tion for noise echo­ing through space. At oth­er times it is the open­ness and unlim­it­ed pos­si­bil­i­ties of con­scious­ness reflect­ed through nature, or the cre­ation of a sys­tem of order in which to under­stand the chaos. It is also the cul­mi­na­tion of shared expe­ri­ences, medi­at­ed through arti­fi­cial con­glom­er­a­tions, cre­at­ed from the gath­ered thoughts of an end­less stream of data. Here, drawing’s poten­tial is lim­it­less.

Mira Gojak appears cour­tesy Mur­ray White Room
Agatha Gothe-Snape appears cour­tesy The Com­mer­cial
Ker­rie Poli­ness appears cour­tesy Anna Schwartz Gallery

Artists fea­tured in Char­ac­ters: Mira Gojak, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Julie Irv­ing, Amalia Lin­do, Ker­rie Poli­ness, Mia Salsjö


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