We wish to pay our respects to the traditional owners and custodians of the lands and waters on which we operate, the Ngunawal, Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and this land always has been and always will be Aboriginal land.

CARPORT SESSIONS (1)

April 29th - May 15th

Carport Session (I) brings together in-progress artworks from three featured artists, Ashe (Dhudhuroa Country, NE Vic), Jacques McMasters (Wadjanbarra Yidi Country, FNQ) and Bryan Foong (Ngunnawal Country, ACT). Carport Session (I) challenges the convention of a gallery space for finished works by bringing a collection of in-progress studio experiments into the gallery. By positioning studio work in a gallery space, the artists are inviting the public into the usually private process of critical feedback. The focus will assist in deciphering the visual languages at play and seeing whether or not it aligns with the artist's intent. Aiding in developing the artists' work.

Carport Session (I) Group Critique - Saturday, April 30th 12:00-1:30pm

Facilitated by Sebastian Henry-Jones (Naarm, VIC), Carport Session (1) Group Critique will be an afternoon of observing, pondering and interpreting unfinished works by the featured artists. The intention of this public program is to provoke meaningful dialogues to assist artistic development and audience engagement.

We especially want to invite those who have not had the opportunity to be involved in a group critique before. We understand that not everyone has been given this opportunity and we are passionate about supporting all who want to be involved and who want to learn more about the arts.

Sebastian Henry-Jones is a curator led by an interest in writing and DIY thinking. He looks to centre the ideas and requirements of those that he works with, and so his practice is informed by striving for a personal ethics with sincerity, generosity, honest communication and learning at its core.

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sausage sizzle and drinks - Saturday, April 30th 1:30-3:00 PM

Directly after the public program will be a sausage sizzle. This event is not ticketed and is open to any and everyone to join. Check out the exhibition, grab a sausage sandwich and drink and enjoy the afternoon at your local artist-run initiative.

Ashe

From the position of a queer, white, middle-aged, emerging artist living and working on Dhudhuroah Country, Ashe's interdisciplinary art practice examines the politics of belonging,  trusting in the most appropriate medium to articulate the concept, be it painting, photography, video, or installation. Recently Ashe has been focused on extending his installation practice into new forms of expression and territories, simultaneously fusing live static performative gestures and the ready-made with photography, sculpture, text, and video, further questioning our broken social systems. It continues his challenging commentary on what it means to look for a safe place to belong within contemporary society.

Ashe graduated from Sydney College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Photography) before spending over a decade wandering Eurasia. In 2015 he earnt a first-class Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts. Ashe has exhibited spasmodically around the traps, received a few grants and awards, and participated in some artist residencies here and there. As a regionally-based artist, he is passionate about building arcs with metro and rurally based artists to circumvent more complex issues of cultural production being, seemingly, embedded in metro-centrism.

Jacques McMaster

Jacques McMaster is a ceramic artist originally from Wadjanbarra Yidi Country in Far North Queensland. Currently working as a studio technician while an artist in residence at Sturt Gallery & Studios on Gundungurra Country, Mittagong NSW. Jacques explores the ways in which movement can be incorporated into ceramic works to make them feel more alive and unique. “I want to make each piece an individual with its own feel and story to tell. These pots are designed to draw the eye and hand. They ask to be touched and investigated, to reveal their hidden little quirks. This is the core theme [explored] through the body of work, where I am exploring different techniques and experimenting”.

Bryan Foong

Bryan Foong (he/him/they) is a queer artist of Chinese-Malaysian heritage on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country. They make expanded painting installations that examine the processes of territorialisation and colonisation within contemporary biopolitics. Foong is a graduate from the ANU School of Art and Design (BVA Honours, Painting) with a background in biology and clinical medicine, and continues to work in the health sector.

Their work has been shown in solo exhibitions and in curated projects at a range of public galleries and ARIs, including Drill Hall Gallery (Kamberi/ACT), ANU School of Art + Design (Kamberi/ACT), Tributary Projects (Kamberi/ACT), SNO (Bulanaming/Sydney), China Academy of Art (Hangzhou), ANCA (Kamberi/ACT), CCAS (Kamberi/ACT, upcoming), Blindside Gallery (Naarm/Melbourne, upcoming) and FirstDraft (Gadigal/Sydney, upcoming). Foong’s work is held in private and public collections, including the Australian National University Art Collection.

Exhibition Organiser: Isabelle Sheppard and Zora Pang

Install Team: Emily O’Neill, Ion Brown, Sam Andrews, Ashe, Bryan Foong and Jacques McMasters