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
www.garthknight.com
www.andreadavies.com
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TAKE A WALK IN THE NIGHT GARDEN…

In the crevices of a darkened world in the back streets of St Peters glow exotic urban flowers that bloom but once a year and only at night.

In the night garden light sculptures, installations and projections burnish the inky darkness, creating a sensory, evocative world, full of salacious suggestion, delicate beauty and an ominous shiver of fear.

In association with MAYS, INDEX, Wundermite, Arcade Screenprinting and Sublitech, Tortuga Studios are proud to present some of Sydney’s most intriguing artists as they tend to their garden beneath the shadows of the night.

Follow the glimmer along Mays Lane to visit the night garden that blooms at Tortuga Studios, its tendrils lighting the sultry dusk of Applebee and Hutchinson Streets from sunset on Friday September 14th 2012.

Artists:
Garth Knight
Perran Costi
Francesca D’Amico
Pete Strong
Sarah Clunie
Punk Monk
Alex Wisser
Georgina Pollard
Sara Di Terlizzi
Justin and Azelia Maynard
Alien Proof Construction
Rachael Lafferty
Jess Pickford
Pirate Photography
Index
The Forge
Wundermite Studios
Pierre Cavalan
Claire Cavalan
MC Beats
Swerve Harris
Rob Kay
Ganbold Lundaa
Jacq Sherry
Andy Medina
Mary Flaskas
Becci Lampard
Connull Stevens
Tealia Scott
Sharky
Isaac Gallagher
Luz  CS
Cheungha Lim
WILDFIRE
Live art from: Andros and associates… (more TBC)

Corner Applebee and Hutchinson Streets, St Peters
Friday 14th September 2012 6pm

Check out the video from last year……..

In The Night Garden October 2011 from Peter Strong on Vimeo.

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