Patrice Sharkey

Amorphous solids

I have always felt most at home living with contradictions - my favourite kind of artwork is one that is elusive and slippery in its definitions. I have selected a range of artworks, ideas and processes that struck me for their openness; things that ask questions rather than finish sentences or try to settle arguments. Across them all are notions of lightness, heaviness, quietness, boldness, human, animal, body, object, levels and planes.

Artists

Katie Paine
Kia Zand
Marina Rolfe
Arthur Nyakuengama
Benjamin Baker
Costa Virtanen
Devika Bilimoria
Evelyn Pohl
Arjang Razzazian
Shannon Syme
Grace Du
Greta Miller
Olive Hunter
Vasilika Tsingos
Carrie Ahern
Katherine Thomson
Lachlan Marley
James Dryden

Devika Bilimoria, *Offerings*, body, brass bell, bronze dice, metallic posca, copper pots, stainless steel spoons, clay cups, fruit, red kumkum, almond milk, rice, ghee, honey, flowers, songs, gestures, dimensions variable, 9 hours over 9 sessions, 123 offerings, 2022. Detail of installation after the final session at the VCA Grad Show.

Evelyn Pohl, *Once again I fall into my feminine ways*, detail, 19.5 x 14.8 cm, oil on board, 2022.

Kate Thomson, *Onnnn what a window traps*, a-host-of-occupants-fallen-window-love-grotty-bricks-a-clothes-line-garden-poly-tubing-tape-bronze-bodies-iron-alloy-dust-leaf-litter-single-channel-video-(live), 2022.

Arthur Nyakuengama, *Buff (detail)*, leather, boots, stuffing, plywood, boot polish, 82 x 90 x 24 cm, 2022. Documentation by Siro Massimo Piovesan Cavaiuolo.

Olive Hunter, VCA Art Grad Show installation 2022. Documentation by SLACK.

Vasilika Tsingos, VCA Art Grad Show install 2022. Documentation by SLACK.

Katie Paine, *On the Myopic Gaze of a Surrogate Eye*, film still, 2022.

Carrie Ahern, *2 (A Very Strong Sense of Place)*, acrylic on board, 22.9 x 30.5 cm, 2022.

Kia Zand, *Observatory* (detail), VCA Art Grad Show install 2022. Documentation by Lucy Foster.

Marina Rolfe, *Slowly the mountain dust descends*, 81 x 102 cm, oil on linen, 2022.

Greta Miller, VCA Art Grad Show install 2022. Documentation by SLACK.

James Dryden, *Tree Bark 7*, chromogenic print, 250 x 315 cm, 2022.

Arjang Razzazian, *Balance (1)*, Riverbed rocks, putty, glass marbles, and paint, 2022. Documentation by Kenneth Suico.

Costa Virtanen, Paradisiac, c-type print, 2022.

Benjamin Baker, *key hole (embrace, encounter)*, acrylic on canvas, stone earthenware, cotton thread, hammered steel bar, 117 x 175 cm, 2022.

Grace Du, VCA Art Grad Show install 2022. Documentation by SLACK.

Lachlan Marley, VCA Art Grad Show install 2022. Documentation by SLACK.

Shannon Syme, *Untitled*, butter cake, buttercream, chocolate, assorted sprinkles, 2022.

Patrice Sharkey

Patrice Sharkey is a curator, writer and arts leader who lives on Kaurna land in Adelaide. She is currently the Artistic Director of Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) and Deputy Chair of the National Association of the Visual Arts (NAVA). Previous roles include Director, West Space, Melbourne (2015-2018) and Assistant Curator, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2011-2015).

Patrice has worked on major projects with a wide-range of leading artists, including Fiona Abicare, Sidney McMahon, Jason Phu, Ryan Presley (Marri Ngarr), Yhonnie Scarce (Kokatha and Nukunu), Simon Starling, Edward Thomasson and Hossein Valamanesh. Her writing has been published by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Home of the Arts (Surfers Paradise), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth) and National Gallery of Victoria.

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