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UPCOMING EXHIBITION - Ghost Without a Home

Flying into the year with an exhibition straight up!!! ‘Ghost Without a Home’ - a group exhibition, opens January 16th at Rubicon ARI. Some words from curator Jess Wilson below.

‘Ghost Without a Home’

Underbelly blew up my house. My childhood home was a location for Fat Tony & Co. (2014). It played a  meth lab, which mum chose not to take personally. In early 2018 my childhood home was demolished (for real this time), to celebrate I invited my artist friends to create a loving sendoff. For one evening my parents opened up their home of over 30 years to some old friends and some strangers. We called it a ‘House Party’.

Now that the house is gone, our artworks have been cast adrift. 'Ghost Without a Home’ temporarily rehouses and reworks our artworks in a gallery space.

Artists: Jess Wilson, Narinda Cook, Hahna Read, Lou Molesworth, Shae Rooke, Anne Kucera

EXHIBITION: Optical Scattering

Me n Jess Dubblu’s new video ‘Optical Scattering’ is now showing at Bar Josephine as part of West Projections Festival. 

‘Optical Scattering’ is a large scale video projection of a cloud of smoke which snakes it’s way through the rivers, buildings and streets of Melbourne’s West, scattering and collecting as it goes. As the smoke cloud curls around trees, the edge of a bar, down a flight of stairs it gathers smoke from more and more sources. Cigarettes, a smoke machine, mozzie coils and industrial smoke blend in together. Hovering above the beer garden at Bar Josephines, it's morphing, moving form becomes a type of ‘thought bubble’ drawing on the many peoples, places and histories of the local area. 

NEW VIDEO ‘OPTICAL SCATTERING’ at West Projections Festival

💭 Optical Scattering 💭 is a smokin' new video installation by me 'n Jess Dubblu! Showing at Bar Josephine as a part of West Projections Festival 11th-27th August.