IRENE HANENBERGH, AKIRA AKIRA, PETER MCKAY, ANDREW NICHOLLS, BARBARA DORAN, TONY SCHWENSEN, CARLA CESCON, MATT CALVERT, CLAIRE TRACEY, DANIEL BOYD, SALLY REES, SARAH GOFFMAN, DARREN SYLVESTER, DORTE CONROY, PATRICK DOHERTY, HELOISE ROBERTS + RICHARD MUNSIE, GLENN DURIE, DAVID SIMPKIN, JAS HUGONNET, JEMIMA WYMAN, BELLE CHARTER, JEREMY HIAH, JOHN HARRIS, VIVIENNE BINNS, KENSUKE TODO, ROB BROWN, KATRINA SIMMONS , ADAM CUTHBERT, LUCY A ROBERTS, NICK SELENITSCH, MARK HILTON, MATTHEW GRIFFIN, TRAVIS BEARD, VIN RYAN, CLARE WHITNEY, PATRICK POUN?D, PAUL HAY, KAI LAM, JOHN VELLA, PETER VANDERMARK, RICHARD BELL, MARIE HAGERTY, RICHARD LEWER, ROB MCHAFFIE,
RUTH WALLER, SAM BOWKER, SAMANTHA SMALL, SARAH crowEST, SIMON SCHEUERLE, CHRIS BENNIE, PHILIPA VEITCH, PAUL JAMIESON, KEVIN SHEEHAN, KELLY SCURR, SUSAN FLAVELL, MIKALA DWYER
curated by Mark Hislop and Toni Bailey
someone shows something to someone
The exhibition title someone shows something to someone refers to the exchange of ideas implicit in the act of communication between artists, and between curators and artists. The curators have sought to take this exchange as an entry into a network of connections between artists that forms an idiosyncratic map of the material, conceptual and aesthetic concerns of this particular group. Like a Chinese whisper of sorts.
Individuals in a social world are distinct from consumers; we depend on a layer of networks along which a sense of community is developed. Community values and notions of individual self worth are built on relationships and our sense of place - what we commonly call social fabric. This structure of multi-connected relationships forms an information economy where exchange itself is the ontological force in social life.
someone shows something to someone is anexhibition about recognizing the value of this engagement between peers that artists develop as part of their practice. When artists talk to each other with a mutual recognition of the nature of art practice, it is not talk as promotion, it is not talk about publicity or the selling of work, and it is not talk about categorizing art to understand it. It is talk to do with ideas, communication that builds relationships that bind the componentsof artistic practice and form a cultural community. This exhibition values connection and exchange as a slippery essential element in our art world.
MARK HISLOP
