In her video works, Trenerry’s characters are furtive, fugitive and trapped within hostile environments where they are subjected to recurrent physical manifestations of their anxieties.
All Flesh is Grass is the second instalment in a series of video works which explore fear and control in humankind’s uneasy relationship with the natural world.
Brie Trenerry is a Melbourne-based artist primarily working with video and digital media. She has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne and has recently exhibited her works in curated exhibitions in Australia and internationally. Currently, she is lecturing at Victoria University and teaches video production at RMIT and VCA. She completed a Masters of Fine Art at RMIT in 2001.
Gallery 2 James Kenyon - The Lost City of Adelaide
What if Adelaide was a ‘lost city’? An Atlantis, an Ur or a Pompeii? A city and society so advanced and evolved that its people could communicate with a complexity, efficiency and poetry that carried meaning too great for the written word? What if these Adelaideans developed a script with an added dimension - the third dimension; a script comprised of three dimensional characters, rotated slightly, to accurately convey a nuance of meaning, slight pun or jagged insight. A script that carried tone, volume, irony, double-meanings and the history of the discussion, the history of the idea and it’s various contexts all within one sentence.
What if the script was recovered millenia later, with no code or translation? Is it a script, a map, or perhaps an ancient model for an unknown structure?
James Kenyon completed his Honours Degree in Fine Art from the VCA in 2006. He now lectures in drawing at the VCA and CAE as well as building sets for the Melbourne Opera Company. From time to time he ferry’s art about the place in a little white van, maps various coastal parks with a GPS, and plays guitar in his room.
Gallery 3 Anna-Maria O’Keefe - Arterial Embolism
Arterial Embolism is a sculptural scenario of a seemingly dislodged and relocated urban landscape. The installation uses the spatial confines of the gallery to construct a ruptured chunk of highway, as though the road has been violently removed from some exterior scene and reconstructed within the gallery. As opposed to signifying transport and progression, the broken remnants of infrastructure become redundant and foreboding, as amputated limbs of an industrial panorama. The work could be construed as a mock disaster, pre-empting the inevitable forces of entropy becoming a decaying monument, or a monument to decay.
Anna-Maria O’Keeffe is a Melbourne-based artist. Since completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts - Sculpture at Monash University in 2004, O’Keeffe has shown in numerous galleries and artist-run initiatives in Melbourne, including Blindside, RMIT Project Space, Platform, Linden, Span, Yarra Sculpture Gallery and the Treasury Museum. In 2006 she was awarded a New Work grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. This is her first solo show.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
