The Artroom at Vivo, Palm Cove 2021
Six + Six: Mixed Messages is about twelve different
artists and their varied and idiosyncratic responses to the idea
of mixing messages using a diverse range of materials and
processes.
The bittersweet, dull roar of this small crowd of artists
expresses distinctive ways of thinking, seeing, and doing.
Raewyn Biggs discusses mixing of cultures and a
comfortable equilibrium.
Barbara Dover presents us with
our proclamation to conserve our natural world while at the same
time ruthlessly exploiting it.
Louisa Ennis-Thomas uses AI
to create a stream of algorithmic adaptions: a visual response
to the ‘mixed messaging’ of her mother’s Alzheimer's.
Andrea Huelin conveys a feeling of knowing with her
nostalgic objects.
Ed Koumans combines the unexpected in
jewellery that evokes wonder.
Claudine Marzik considers
The Restaurant as a place of mixed messages where we meet,
greet, eat, communicate, wait, and contemplate.
Michael
Marzik tinkers with mixing of form and function in his digital
prints.
Julie Poulsen offers an overabundance of visual
clues but gives no clear message.
Rose Rigley looks at the
complexity of love and psychological intent.
Jennifer
Valmadre plays with a mixing of surface and ceramic forms.
Clyde Williams folds complex shapes with colours that come
forward and then recede.
Janelle Williams produces
romanticised vignettes that evoke a sense of melancholy for a
safer time.
Artist Statement - Barbara Dover
The context of the assemblage collage works, relates to the myriad of contradictions and dichotomies about the natural world we hold which, it would seem, we accept without too much concern; we exploit it ruthlessly while at the same time proclaim the need to conserve it.
