Second Look: response, remade & experimental textiles
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, AustraliaIn the third of the Second Look series of exhibitions at Barometer Gallery, artists have focused on remaking and experimenting as a response to their concerns.
Working with existing textiles - old, found, gifted, scavenged, archived, repurposed are made into new works, given a second showing, a second life.
All artists bring their individual concerns or interests to the project and the artworks show how they have responded to key concerns be it sustainability, wellbeing, repurposing, conserving materials, making do. All are experimenting, remaking and reimagining a new outcome.
META MORPHEUS
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, Australia‘Meta Morpheus’ alludes to and plays with the term metamorphosis, the intention being a chimeric transformation of its original meaning. Meta here is used to describe a subject that transcends its original limits. Morpheus who as the Greek god of dreams and sleep, bears messages from the underworld to be interpreted subliminally by the cognisant self.
Beaneath The Surface
Barometer 13 Gurner Street, Paddington, NSW, Australia"Beneath the Surface” is a group exhibition presenting the work of four graduating Advanced Diploma of Visual Art students from Northern Beaches TAFE: Lucy Hookway, Lina Ocolisan, Susie Roberts, and Tash Tribe.