Notions of mortality, artistic legacy, and the economics of art practice have influenced the artists’ decision to embark on this personal deaccessioning project. The messy residue of making art can take up considerable physical and psychological space, plus precious environmental resources. Fractionate is made of plaster and hessian moulds, wax figures, fibreglass and resin castings, rubbish bags loaded with fabric and foam, metal rods, wooden offcuts, and plastic fixtures. The cluttered chaos of the exhibition space feels like a replicant toymaker’s workshop gone awry, with pale fragmented body parts scattered amongst crumbling plaster structures. This accretion of materials and equipment in an artist’s practice can become a costly burden to store and manage. How to archive, what to keep, and the thought of leaving this heavy task to someone else after you’re gone, are difficult considerations for any artist. Fractionate takes agency over the inevitable task of deaccessioning objects from an artist’s studio, transforming it into a celebratory act. Keep reading via LemonadeLetters.com.au @grantxwilkes is a collaborative artistic partnership born out of mutual intent. Courtney Pederson @visualdoc and @charlesrobb : Fractionate @wreckersartspace , Meanjin/Brisbane 4—27 April 2024 Closing event 6–8:00 pm Saturday 27 April 1-3. Courtney Pederson and Charles Robb, Fractionate, installation view, Wreckers Artspace, 2024. Photographs: Lee Wilkes (details). Courtesy of the artists. ID: A jumble of peach waxy chunks is piled on a table. Behind are green bubble wrap and disembodied plaster heads. ID: Objects including a blonde wig and black sculpted arms and hands sit on a black metal shelving unit. ID: A photograph of two open cardboard boxes. One contains a pile of cut up white plaster chunks and the other is filled with cut up pink fleshy coloured sections of what appears to be a human anatomy model, with muscles and sinews. Two large objects, one white and one black, lean against the wall in the background. Credits continue in comment below. #fractionate #wreckersartspace #artistduo #artistcouple #courtneypederson #charlesrobb
‘Growing Pains’ solo exhibition by @sophgibsonart at @wreckersartspace #wreckersartspace #meanjin #meanjinartist #disability #brisbane #brisbaneartist
Hold, 2018, Detail shot, Nail and string installation, 150 cm x 320 cm x 3cm. I love the grid/matrix in this installation. The shadows slightly bounced off the wall in the right lighting. Lots of people missed the fact that the nails weren't at all in the wall. This piece demanded close and slow looking for its truth to be realised. Some words from the show below: 'Residue’ explores that which remains behind after a core is lost. Brisbane based artists Ally McKay and Tess Mehonoshen depict a delicate but prevailing determination to rebuild and plough forward through loss, using material and spatial relationships to convey intimate experiences. Reflecting, it is like the nets I made in 2015 but in a wall based configuration, an extension of that idea somehow. #contemporaryart #installationart #clarenceartsandevents #wreckersartspace #bneartist #bneart #materialpoetics #contemporaryinstallation #australianartist #abstractartist #grid #matrix
Hold, 2018, Detail shot, Nail and string installation, 150 cm x 320 cm x 3cm. This little close up was taken from the Schoolhouse Gallery wall at @Clarence_artsevents in Hobart from my exhibition "Residue" with Tess Mehonoshen. I'm really proud of this work, my aim was to create a configuration that would support a nail, a material that's usually expected to support others. The nail is connected and suspended by the tension in the string. This took me a full day and a half to install, and has been the biggest iteration of the work. This was developed from my 3 month residency at @wreckersartspace. I use nails a lot. They are strong, they can be useless and fragile. They're kind of beautiful metaphors to me, I love em to bits. Weird, I know.. #contemporaryart #installationart #clarenceartsandevents #wreckersartspace #bneartist #bneart #materialpoetics #contemporaryinstallation #australianartist #abstractartist #hammertime
Images from Rose Manning’s recent exhibition of vulnerable and deeply personal exhibition text-based works, titled ‘Microdosing Sadness’
Simone Hine’s theoretical premise for Amateur speaks of two things: one, that we can never truly drop out of serfdom, or the conditions of labour—for our networked environments codify and commodify just about every action—and two, that the networked content-industrial complex has turned even the most clueless of us into performance artistes. Luckily for me, Amateur does not serve this theory through any kind of impenetrable self-serving aura, which invariably begets a sense of decorum. Rather, it is openly laid out in a room sheet written by Hine herself. This is good news, since my barometer for whether I will enjoy a show (or not) is usually whether I am laughing within the first minute of entering a fine art establishment, wreck yard, or anything in between . . . Keep reading via LemonadeLetters.com.au Alice Maia Rezende is an emerging curator, writer, and researcher focusing on networked and digital media art practice. Simone Hine: Amateur Wreckers Artspace, Brisbane 17–20 November 2022 Open 4–7pm Sunday 27 November 2022 All images courtesy of the artist 1. Simone Hine, After Dylan Ayres, 2022 ID: Colourful drink cans and rubber bands litter a concrete floor 2. Simone Hine, Deep Time (Media), 1996-2022 ID: A screen showing the artist's head sits sideways in a plastic bucket. The bucket is surrounded with small red beads and sits atop a white plinth 3. Simone Hine: Amateur, installation view, Wreckers Artspace, 2022 ID: Colourful drink cans and rubber bands litter the left of a concrete floor, to the right is a video work on a plinth 4. Simone Hine, Quiet Quitting/Always On ID: A screen attached to two poles is positioned in the corner of a gallery, it shows the artist sitting in a bedroom, collaged imagery of making coffee, and scrolls of text @simonehine @wreckersartspace @margarita_lica #SimoneHine #Amateur #DylanAyres #BangEnergy #BNEart #ArtistRunSpace #WreckersArtspace #AliceMaiaRezende
@tyzatyzatyza has an exhibition of works produced as part of their doctoral research on now @wreckersartspace upstairs. Responding to the unique architecture of the warehouse space, ‘Dynamic Specificity’ brings together seemingly disparate bodies of painting, sculpture, ceramic and textile works in an engaging and immersive installation. Open by appointment, with a closing event next Sunday afternoon (November 27). Go see it 💫💫 #tyzahart #wreckersartspace #dynamicspecificity
Nan, Julie, Video Ezy, and Pizza Hut are all on speed dial in Ricky Larry’s solo: Happy Days. With two moulded pink window frames, Larry invites the audience into his childhood memories. Replica 90s household objects and products are brought back to life through Larry’s DIY sculptures and installations. Via his personal narratives, he opens space for us to make connections to our own childhoods. Larry sends my nostalgia into overdrive as I take in objects so familiar to my youth in suburban Australia. The pink and green tennis balls, Nintendo Gameboys, hundreds and thousands fairy bread, and melting cornetto all transport me to those happy hours spent after school, killing time—before we knew how precious that time really was. Video is new to his practice. Rage Days shows the artist embodying multiple personas to the tune of Land Down Under. This invigorates his objects, injecting energy and life into otherwise mundane suburban moments. In a laid-back larrikin style, the artist conjures Aussie truisms. Endearing, comforting, and all too familiar, Happy Days was well worth the trip down memory lane. Thoughts from Ally McKay, artist, writer, and educator. Ricky Larry: Happy Days Wreckers Artspace 15–29 October 2022 1-5. Ricky Larry, Happy Days, Installation shots, Wreckers Artspace, Photographs: Charlie Hillhouse IDs: Ceramic fired and painted Gameboys in blue, yellow, green, red and pink lean against the wall on a shelf Ceramic fired and painted sculpture of Ajax spray and wipe bottle sits above a cut mango sculpture, both are displayed on small wall shelves A white gallery wall, photographed on an angle, shows the Gameboy sculptures to the right; on the left is a haphazard display of green tennis ball sculptures, each on their own small wall shelf Ceramic letters with hundreds and thousands spell the word HUNDREDS on a white wall above a light blue plaster-bandaged plastic chair A massive red SAMBOY Chip packet soft sculpture is slouched against central metal pole in foreground, tennis ball and Gameboy sculptures are in the background @rickylazz @always_suburban_ @wreckersartspace @c_chillhouse @allymckayartist
So in love 🖤 with my Dogstar tulle skirt thank you Masayo @dogstarclothing. Looks great with my artwork 😀 @wreckersartspace #dogstarclothing #Brisbanedesigner #12gaugeshotgunart #12gauge #shooting #shootingart #emergingartist #contemporaryartist #australianartist #processart #artexploration #art #wreckersartspace #tulleskirt #tulle
12 Gauge @wreckersartspace @dogstarclothing (thank you for the amazing tulle skirt 🖤) #artexploration #artist #12gaugeshotgunart #12gaugeshotgun #emergingartist #exhibiting #exhibitinginBrisbane #wreckersartspace #openingnight #dogstarclothing #goldcoastartist #australianartist #processart #art
Thank you @wreckersartspace for giving me the opportunity to exhibit my work in their amazing space. Open by appointment until Sat 18th June #12gaugeshotgunart #12gaugeshotgun #emergingartist #art #artlife #Australianartist #contemporaryartist #processart #shootingart #wreckersartspace
Not long now.....my exhibition '12 Gauge' Opening night is next Friday 10th June @wreckersartspace 6-9pm. Love to see you there #12gauge #12gaugeshotgunart #contemporaryartist #artexploration #art #artist #emergingartist #aluminiumart #shotataluminium #shotholes #processart #shootingart #wreckersartspace
Atonement - Mark du Potiers. And a very special artist talk afterwards. Wreckers Artspace. @wreckersartspace @markdupotiers #wreckersartspace #markdupotiers
wreckersartspace Hey!! Up next is Rae Saheli with her show 12 Gauge! Please join us for the opening on the 10th of June from 6-9pm! Rae Saheli’s work is defined by a process in which she uses a 12-gauge shot gun aimed at various supports to create explosive and gestural 2-dimensional artworks. Of particular interest to Rae is the unique results that occur when she aims her shotgun at a surface, the hundreds of small pellets that constitute a shot gun shell penetrate each surface in a dynamic yet unique way. Rae has been using this technique since 2019 and it represents a synthesis between her passion for the sport of shooting and the power of art to be at once dynamic and beautiful. Rae hopes to inspire the viewer to reflect on the processes involved in making artwork and the impact of that on the finished work. Would love to see you there #12gaugeshotgunart #shotgunart #contemporaryartist #artist #aluminiumart #Australianartist #processart #visualart #art #emergingartist #openingnight #12gauge #wreckersartspace #randomart #chaosart #sculpture #goldcoastartist #artwork #experimentalart
and we’re back ☣️ ‘the post-apocalyptic dancers’. abstractionist live dance music. • ‘the gack’ - will from wtem!, gongfresh & clamtown ✔️ • ‘7echn0 s1ave’ - ditchdog X pluto ✔️ • ‘bas hayes’ - @em_tapes ✔️ • ‘okg’ - lg ✔️ @ @wreckersartspace #thegack #7echn0s1ave #bashayes #okg #wreckersartspace #anaturallow
I'm currently showing a work (in progress) as part of a group show at @wreckersartspace with my awesome mates @loui_slim @jsg___ @parc_microp and @stendhalbomb We had a great opening last week (thanks to everyone who came along! 🙌) and we will all be in the space again tomorrow at 12pm for a casual artist talk. Come along to chat about art and shit or just hang with some friendly folk 😄 📷 courtesy of @loui_slim #foragainst #wreckersartspace #photomedia #photographicart #installationart #conceptualart #brisbaneart #christineko
Naughty Crosses, @jazcune Wreckers Artspace . . . . . #art #contemporaryart #painting #artstudio #artgallery #jazcune #jordanazcune #queer #brisbane #wreckersartspace #artdocumentation #photography #visitqueensland
Congratulations @jazcune and brilliant essay by @anastabooth at @wreckersartspace #jordanazcune #wreckersartspace
Darcy Williams’ fantastic solo show Cultivating Proxies opened last night @wreckersartspace ! Congratulations @dar_tist on a sensitive and surprising body of work that pushes and pulls between portraiture, abstraction and expanded painting🪴 . #wreckersartspace #darcywilliams #contemporaryart #art #contemporartportraiture #contemporaryportrait #contemporarypainting #figurativepainting #figurativeart #abstractart #expandedpainting #painting #painter #portrait #portraiture #uncertainty #hiddenandrevealed #sharehouse #sharehouselife #potplants #plants #brisbaneart #bneart
Some cute pics from launch night Dreams We Forget 🥰 thank you to lovely friends old and new for coming, @wreckersartspace for dreamy space and excellent team for making it happen! ❤️❤️❤️ I wanna cry thinking about packing it all up it was a beautiful time that went too quickly. We have pretty much sold out thank you all for your kindness and support 🥰 #australianceramics #contemporaryceramics #painting #film #wreckersartspace #brisbaneart #dreams #brisbanecommunity
A very strong and moving work by Brisbane based Iranian artist @azadzaad presented at @wreckersartspace Artist run initiatives often present exhibitions stronger than their institutional equivalents and receive very little recognition and support for their labour, we need to do more to support this sector and great work like this #SaltLake #AzadehHamzeli #WreckersArtspace #Independentpractice #BrisbaneExhibitions
Very excited to get this one back from the framers. It’s one of Anya Swan’s from her student days. I love it. Great framing by @theartofframing #anyaswan #wreckersartspace #australianart #planesofinstagram
@taylahaggarty exhibition 🌻 at @wreckersartspace nice chatting to you @taylahaggarty and @rosebudthud open til 5pm today #Sunflowers #Plants #TaylaHaggarty #Brisbaneartist #WreckersArtspace #Woolongabba
Just stopped by to see Erika Scott’s show at @wreckersartspace today is the last day to check it out #ErikaScott #WreckersArtspace #BrisbaneARIs