#interludeartist

• We are pleased to welcome Sydney based visual artist TALITHA KENNEDY, to our Interlude stable! @talitha.kennedy “Through process driven practice I consider the necessary destruction of things to make the new. My work is guided by an aesthetic of fecundity where creative forces are in eternal flux between the living and dying. I work intuitively with black leather, I cut and stitch and stuff this co¬¬rporeal material to re-flesh it into organic soft sculptures. I have a vague vision of the presence of the thing that I am compelled to make then I surrender to the process to bring it into being. In a similar way, I meditatively scratch ink marks on crumpled paper, mapping out an illusory skin. Resulting sculptures, installations and drawings evoke uncanny hybrids of plant, body and landscape that hint at desire and fear of entropic nature. There is a shadow of guilt in the things I create, a sense of penance for the will to survive that has led human culture to dominate the natural environment.” –Talitha Kennedy For more information about Talitha’s practice visit her profile on the ‘Interlude Artist’ page of our website • #interludeartist #talithakennedy [Pictured: Effigy for Repressed Entropy (detail), 2015, leather, thread, polyester fibre & wire]

• We are pleased to welcome LUKE O’CONNOR, Sydney based artist working primarily in ceramic media, to our Interlude Stable! @lukeryan____ Within Luke’s practice the vessel form is a key site of experimentation. While referencing the utilitarian language embedded in various histories of ceramics he presents works which are formally and functionally ambiguous. Seductive polychromatic surfaces gesture towards references to food, geological events, skin and oozing fluids. The works are process heavy, within most pieces, plaster molding, physical sculpting of the clay, and the mechanical aid of the potter’s wheel are combined. The remnants of these techniques are left visible highlighting the clear links to the physical making process. Luke graduated from Sydney college of the arts with a bachelor of visual arts (Honours, First Class). To see more of Luke’s work visit his artist profile on the ‘Interlude Artist’ page of our website • #interludeartist #lukeoconnor [Pictured: Curatorial view, Graduate-Exhibition, SCA, 2016, glazed ceramics]

• We are pleased to welcome DEAN CROSS, First Nations trans-disciplinary artist, to our Interlude stable! @deean.cross Dean has been formally trained in both Contemporary Dance and Sculpture, and works across the sculptural and pictorial fields. Through this he attempts to re-evaluate and re-construct what it means to be Australian in the 21st Century, and how that fits within our globalised world. He has been involved in numerous exhibitions and prizes including Tarnanthi at The Art Gallery of South Australia (2017), The Churchie Emerging Art Prize (2016), and The Redlands Konica Minolta Art prize (2015). Dean is also on the Board of Directors of QL2 Dance, Australia’s premier youth dance company. Dean was born and raised on Ngunnawal country, however his ancestral roots lie within the Worimi Nation. To see more of Dean’s work visit his artist profile on the ‘Interlude Artist’ page of our website • #interludeartist #deancross [Pictured: Obey a Widow’s Son, 2017]

• Forms in progress inside the studio of our Mexican based Interlude Artist @monicaescutia • #interludeartist (at Guadalajara, Jalisco)

• Details inside the studio of our Guadalajara based, Mexican Interlude Artist @mevnaisosmoos • #interludeartist #interludeoutandabout (at Guadalajara, Jalisco)

• Inside the studio of our Guadalajara based, Mexican Interlude Artist @monicaescutia • #interludeartist #interludeoutandabout (at Guadalajara, Jalisco)

• Interlude Artist Chris Sutevski’s ‘Google Recursive’, 2017, graphite on paper (10 x drawings, 10 x google images) • #languagedisorder3 #interludeartist (at Interlude Gallery)

• Writers Program contributor Kate O’Boyle untitled installation, 2017, communion wafers, British Paints Divine Girl house paint; made in response to ‘Whisper Pink: A Fairytale’, @studiodavisbirks, 2010, cut and assembled commercial paint swatches, for Language Disorder III, Interlude curated group exhibition • #languagedisorder3 #interludewritersprogram #interludeartist (at Interlude Gallery)