Movers and Shapers 2 Women & Land I Sculpture, 2021, Hazelhurst Arts Centre
Movers & Shapers 2 Women & Land | Sculpture
Broadhurst Gallery
Hazelhurst Arts Centre
19 November – 5 December 2021
With focus on women and the land, Movers & Shapers 2 presents the work of artists and collaborators with an emphasis on relief and sculpture work with responses to different field trip locations as a moving landscape collective.
Movers & Shapers is an all-female art collective initiated by Louisa Chircop that aims to broaden an awareness of women's art practices.
This is a biannual exhibition project founded by Louisa Chircop in collaboration with curator Carrie Kibbler
Kathryn Cowen, Think - Lab - Tank - Incubator, 2021, ultraviolet light, perspex box, steel shelf, laboratory glassware, plastic, silcone, gum nuts, fishing lure, twigs, acrylic and fluorescent paint, shells, polyurethane foam, fabric, crinoline tubing, seed pods, palm inflorescence, netting, fishing line, cotton, embroidery thread, pumice, leaves, 44 x 65 x 26cm
Think-Lab-Tank-Incubator, 2021, ultraviolet light, perspex box, steel shelf, laboratory glassware, plastic, silicone, gum nuts, fishing lure, twigs, acrylic and fluorescent paint, shells, polyurethane foam, fabric, crinoline tubing, seed pods, feathers, palm inflorescence, netting, fishing line, cotton, beads, embroidery thread, pumice, leaves, 44 x 65 x 26cm
Collecting while bushwalking is my way of connecting with nature, treasuring the small parts that together make the whole. Reflecting on these components back in the studio I began to ponder the future of nature; the possibility that by necessity or by design, hybrid organic/synthetic forms might emerge. A process of playfully combining industrial, maritime and millinery materials with my collection of found natural objects ensued.
Organic and synthetic matter merges and interacts with ultraviolet light within the ‘Think-Lab-Tank-Incubator’. Biomorphic specimens in the making; evolving, transmogrifying, transforming. A speculative ecology in miniature; in waiting.
Kathryn Cowen is a Sydney based multidisciplinary artist working across the fields of painting, sculpture and installation. Drawing on science fiction tropes in order to re-present visions of reality and consider alternate possibilities, Kathryn is currently questioning how our ecology will adapt and change to deal with whatever the future brings.
