Eating With My Hands & Feet

Chanel Tobler, An Arm. 2019, pastel, pencil, oil stick, acrylic & masking tape on paper, 54 x 39 cm.

Chanel Tobler, An Arm. 2019, pastel, pencil, oil stick, acrylic & masking tape on paper, 54 x 39 cm.

Chanel Tobler

Eating With My Hands & Feet is an exhibition of drawings by Chanel Tobler exploring the ambivalence of being in a place that is home in theory but not in actuality. Place, as used by Tobler, is a term interchangeable with self, others, and geographic locations. Tobler employs various entry points in her process, such as automatic drawing, as well as the engagement of memory & personal histories to overcome and make sense of the limbo land that is, ambivalence. Through these techniques, Tobler’s drawings mix the subconscious and conscious mind to map her lived experience in a gestural and abstract manner.

Tobler competed her bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School in Sydney, where she majored in ceramics and drawing. Since 2017, Chanel has completed the Heima Residency in Iceland, and exhibited in solo and group shows Australia wide. An ongoing interest across her practice is the psychological and emotional space within which our relationships to space, self and others occurs.

 9TH – 27TH OCTOBER, 2019

OPENING 9TH OCTOBER, 6PM

 
 
 

Tributary Projects is supported by Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centres.

Tributary Projects acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and waters in which we operate, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, as well as the Ngarigu people and others who traded on, traveled through, and connected with this country, and continue to do so. We pay our respects to their Ancestors and Elders and acknowledge that sovereignty of these lands was never ceded.