Sydney Exhibition

James Edwards, Slade de Plater,
Harriett Clark, Ethan Robertson
& Lucy Bird

Opens Wed 30 September
Runs 1 – 11 October 2020

The concept for ‘daddy went home to sleep’ is centred around themes that explore and expand upon interactions between people and domestic spaces. The themes range from the psychological impact of home life and personal development, to the collection and documentation of dust particles collected withing domestic spaces. The diversity in each of these artists practices’ links a collective fascination for recontextualising traditional interpretation of domestic spaces.  

The Artists

Ethan Robertson

Ethan’s practice focuses on the collection, documentation and display of dust and dirt particles collected within specific spaces. Through the use of a slide projector, Ethan enlarges the images to distort and create a plethora of imagery reminiscent of landscape topographical imagery. His intention within this show is to display a full 80 image slideshow on loop that showcases the hidden imagery within dust collected from domestic spaces. He believes that this focus on the microscopic dust found in domestic spaces is reminiscent of the hidden psychological aspects of domestic life.

Lucy Bird

Lucy’s practice is centred around the psychological impact upon young people growing up within broken and abusive households. Working within printmaking mediums, Lucy uses a collection of photographic imagery collected from her family’s past and uses written text and etching and cyanotype techniques to convey her themes.

James Edwards

James’s practice spans mediums of photographic image and moving image on film. He is concerned with the perception of the homosexual male figure, and the psychological affects experienced by young homosexual men in a time of self-discovery.

Harriet Clark

Harriet’s practice utilises her interactions with landscapes and printmaking etching techniques to interpret her chosen sites of interest. The creation of her work involves her taking untouched zinc etching plates and using found objects from chosen landscapes to create scratches and marks on the plates surface, as a form of representing a natural landscape through abstract imagery.

Slade de Plater

Slade uses a range of different mono-printing techniques within relief printing mediums. Interested with the history and representation of still-life artworks he intends to make a series of relief printed works that encompass the themes of domestic spaces and his own memories and inhibitions in relation to domestic life. His dependency on solvents when creating his works is used to wash out the imagery, converting his representational imagery into a representation of the past, and his memories and relationship to his family and home-life.