Erica Seccombe Nanoplastica, digital animation still, microcomputed X-ray tomography, rendered with Drishti 2008

Nanoplastica

Erica Seccombe re-evaluates ideas established in Minimalism and Pop Art to include a level of contemporary currency. Her use of banal found objects generates an interesting collision of mass popular culture with elite artistic and scientific pursuits.

Necessitating the incorporation of bona fide scientific research methods Nanoplastica ultimately reaches beyond Pop, crossing into the science/art paradigm. This quasi-geological view of the most common contemporary objects raises the stakes for post modern practice, acknowledging with considerable humour, in an authentic Pop tradition, the historical and cultural significance of quotidian objects.

 

Ellis Hutch Touching space 2008 video still

 

Touching space

The drawings and videos that form the work Touching space are part of a series of works investigating gesture and the ways we use our hands in speaking, without being fully aware of our movements. These works incorporate hand gestures made unconsciously and elements of sign language in moving images that have been abstracted until they become almost unrecognisable.