Remembrance can be the act of showing respect for the dead: rosemary sprigs for the ANZACs; Day-of-the-Dead ceremonies to honour the spirits, a riot of candy-coloured skulls atop candle-strewn altars, and mesmeric death masks adorned with flowers and insects; warnings that Indigenous images, voices and names might be present.

But it is the simple act of remembering, too, as richly patterned as it is leveraged, causing jolts of recognition, or that warm glow of a happy childhood memory. It can be a flash of understanding between strangers, or hazy flecks of last-night’s fun, a shiver of déjà vu, or Pavlov’s-dog salivation in anticipation of the sharp tang of taste.

The smell of oil paint and cedar redolent of the warm wood of a grandmother’s studio, rich in endeavour and love; an old hurt bubbling to the surface like acid; the pride we feel in the face of valour – be it shadowed nostalgia or visceral recollection, remembrance is defined by its perspective and contextualised by experience.

It is unique.

In a show designed to evoke powerful emotion, over 20 artists exhibit what remembrance means to them. It will feature the work of Will Coles, Dillon MacEwan, Jasmine Poole, Andrea Davies, Christie Torrington, Pierre Cavalan, Terry Archer, Onur Ka, Azelia Maynard, Robert Maxwell, Chris Lego, Paul Irving, BUNKWAA, Gemma Lark, Andrew Jones, Nikki McLennan, Lu Campbell-Smith, Sasha Wild, Alli Sebastian Wolf, Victoria Waghorn, H Morgan-Harris and more to be announced.

Opening Night: 6pm 25th November 2022

[image credit: Seven Sisters Songline 1994, Josephine Mick, Ninuku Arts]

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TORTUGA STUDIOS is proud to present

Skein: Bound and Unravelled

March 22^nd-31^{st 2013}

Featuring the work Garth Knight and Andrea Davies, two of Sydney’s most intriguing artists.

Tangled, knotted, woven, twisted, coiled and unpicked with nervous fingers, Skein examines the threads that hold our existence together while languidly choking the breath from within it.

From the incoherent tangle of everyday commitment and the sprung coils of the past, to the complexities of physical connection, Skein slips seductively from a thread of thought to charged bondage with an elegant shiver.

Installation artist and photographer Garth Knight is a master of elegant, bondage rope art. His work captures the exquisite beauty of the human form, bound within an arboreal limbo, limbs within limbs creating limbs.

Combining an interest in Zen concepts, pagan mythology and the traditions of kinbaku bondage with the botanical sculpture of penjing, the science of fractals and his training as an engineer, Knight creates images that explore the ‘big questions’: the cycles of life and death; the harmony of chaos and order; transcendence found in constraint.

Andrea Davies is an acclaimed artist and muralist. Her most recent work considers what lies beyond the façade of the things we take for granted, picking at frayed threads to tease out a story, from the stolen generation to the current immigration policy, through the pitted and desultory lens of the circus…

Opening night: Friday 22nd March 2013,6-9pm 

Show runs 23rd – 31st March 2-6pm or by appointment

TORTUGA STUDIOS
31 PRINCES HIGHWAY
ST PETERS
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