Severance
Hilary Dodd & Yumemi Hiraki
11
May 2017
11
May
2017
26
May 2017
Gallery 1
Hilary Dodd typically works with dense, textural substances, using cement and oxide as her primary materials. She asks one to examine materials in unsuspecting variants and reveals their ability to move us in ways that are difficult to immediately cognise. Dodd attempts to embrace the unguarded subconscious by capturing the unstable core that harbours in all of us. Her unique approach to using industrial mediums illustrates the curious pleasures to be found in discomfort. The abstracted surfaces and unfamiliar textures create canvases in various states of aesthetic decay. Yumemi HirakiThe world is a dynamic space. Things come and go, disappearing and resurfacing. It is perpetually transitioning, interconnected through an expansive web. Yumemi Hiraki’s elemental approach to her practice quietly engages this ephemeral nature through nostalgic reflections of memory and history. Hiraki’s practice explores what it means to reside within cultural gaps. Shifting between being here and there, from home to another home.
Hilary Dodd typically works with dense, textural substances, using cement and oxide as her primary materials. She asks one to examine materials in unsuspecting variants and reveals their ability to move us in ways that are difficult to immediately cognise. Dodd attempts to embrace the unguarded subconscious by capturing the unstable core that harbours in all of us. Her unique approach to using industrial mediums illustrates the curious pleasures to be found in discomfort. The abstracted surfaces and unfamiliar textures create canvases in various states of aesthetic decay. Yumemi HirakiThe world is a dynamic space. Things come and go, disappearing and resurfacing. It is perpetually transitioning, interconnected through an expansive web. Yumemi Hiraki’s elemental approach to her practice quietly engages this ephemeral nature through nostalgic reflections of memory and history. Hiraki’s practice explores what it means to reside within cultural gaps. Shifting between being here and there, from home to another home.
Yumemi Hiraki
Yumemi Hiraki is an Australian-based artist from Hiroshima, Japan, currently based in nipaluna/Hobart. After completing her BFA at the Victorian College of the Arts, she continues to develop her practice while exhibiting in various galleries and ARI’s around Victoria and now, Tasmania.Experimenting with a wide range of materials, she explores tense relationships and subtle connotations of one as a resident of cultural gaps. Immersing her viewer in the complexity of history, memory, nostalgia and identity, Hiraki’s spatial landscaping evokes a familiar yet foreign sense of longing, belonging and holding on. Treating her practice as a personal study of life’s continuity and ephemerality, her works hint that perhaps our memories, and in turn, the way we withhold history is as dynamically transitional as this world that we all inhabit.
Hilary Dodd
Hilary Dodd is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the impulsive and instinctual nature of the creative process. The visceral essence of her work allows for an interplay of weight, texture, transience, movement and memory. Dodd asks one to examine materials or objects in unsuspecting variants, and reveals their ability to move us in ways that are difficult to immediately cognise. Abstracted forms often linger behind the veil of their constructed surfaces, shrouded and immobile, depicting the tenuous beauty within decay and the curious pleasures to be found in discomfort.