A foreign body, 2024, oil on canvas, framed, 61 x 61 cm
Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two 16 March / 21 April 2024
JOSHUA COCKING A foreign body
During Cocking’s years living in remote Indigenous communities, he was always conscious of being an outsider. That despite Cocking’s good intentions, he was an interloper in an unfamiliar place. These paintings capture implausible orbs floating in the landscape, attempting to blend into their surroundings, reflecting and absorbing colour. But ultimately, they remain a foreign body; they do not belong. The Kimberley works represent Joshua Cocking’s ongoing attempts to immerse in a country and culture that is not his own. Conversely, the landscapes of south-western Victoria where he grew up are now also foreign; a sense of belonging eroded over half a lifetime lived away.
Heather B. Swann, HeavyHead, Collection Art Gallery of South Australia 2016, 2023, oil on linen, silver finish frame, 51 x 51 cm
Stockroom Kyneton, gallery one 22 July / 27 August 2023
KEZ HUGHES You Never Got Me Right
In an age where digital images dominate our experience, Kez Hughes’ paintings are lovingly rendered to communicate stillness, and beauty, and provide a new recording of artworks lost to their respective histories and locations. Through repositioning and recreating paintings from existing documentary images of art, Hughes contemplates ideas of originality, authenticity, and authorship. You never got me right brings together painted adaptations of works by Australian Artists including Lucina Lane, Heather b Swann, Olah Cohn, and Nat Ryan amongst others.
Crescent, 2023, stoneware, glaze, sea glass, 18 x 21 x 6.5 cm
Stockroom Kyneton, ceramic space 22 July / 27 August 2023
GEORGINA PROUD Flux
Flux is an exploration of materiality that investigates the chemical reactions and transformation of materials that occur during the ceramic-making and firing process. These works combine a range of materials and techniques that I have been experimenting with over the past four years including the incorporation of novel materials, such as sea glass, seeds, and perlite, into different clay bodies. The interplay of the introduced materials and the clay creates a unique process of development.
Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two 04 February / 12 March 2023
JARRAD MARTYN Polar Front
Polar Front explores humanity's relationship with the natural environment through intersecting family and world histories. Martyn's inspiration for this new body of work is through film photographs his Father took whilst working as a helicopter pilot, based at Casey Station in Antarctica during the 1980s.
HONOR FREEMAN Absorb, 2021, porcelain, gold lustre, 5 x 24 x 13cm (photographer: Grant Hancock)
Stockroom Kyneton, ceramic space 04 December 2021 - 09 January 2022
HONOR FREEMAN In Search Of Ordinary
Honor Freeman’s practice reveals a careful observation of the domestic realm and the ordinariness of the everyday. The work conveys ideas of material transformation. The transmutation of common, unremarkable domestic objects into sculptures that belie their materiality and purpose – an ordinary alchemy. Working primarily in porcelain Freeman harnesses the mimetic qualities inherent in clay through the magic of slip casting. The works playfully interact with ideas of liquid-made solids. The porcelain casts echo the original objects; the liquid slip turns solid and becomes a memory of a past from a ghost object.
