Genius loci
The landscape is a rich starting point for the exploration of a broad variety of topics. From the connection to Country of Australia’s First Peoples through to the contemporary re-imagining of what a landscape is, artists celebrate the beauty, power and fragility of the natural world. In this exhibition the artists share a common interest in landscape. Working with glass they respond in a variety of ways to challenge the viewer’s perception of what is often regarded as a stylistically rigid genre.
The landscape is a rich starting point for the exploration of a broad variety of topics. From the connection to Country of Australia’s First Peoples through to the contemporary re-imagining of what a landscape is, artists celebrate the beauty, power and fragility of the natural world. In this exhibition the artists share a common interest in landscape. Working with glass they respond in a variety of ways to challenge the viewer’s perception of what is often regarded as a stylistically rigid genre.
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GENIUS<br />
LOCI<br />
5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE. 2018<br />
1 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
The Australian landscape is a rich starting point for the<br />
exploration of a broad variety of topics.<br />
From the connection to Country of Australia’s First Peoples through<br />
to the contemporary re-imagining of what a landscape is, artists<br />
celebrate the beauty, power and fragility of the natural world. In this<br />
exhibition the artists share a common interest in landscape. Working<br />
with glass they respond in a variety of ways to challenge the viewer’s<br />
perception of what is often regarded as a stylistically rigid genre.<br />
The varied responses embrace and intersect with social, political,<br />
spiritual and emotional perspectives revealing the Australian<br />
landscape to be a dynamic - often highly charged - space that is<br />
revered as well as contested.<br />
The exhibiting artists’ works highlight parallels and contrasts,<br />
establishing a compelling dialogue between each artwork.<br />
The muted palette of Kirstie Rae’s substantial work Open<br />
door 1 (2018) correlates with the subtle print and glass works<br />
Shift #2 and Shift #3 (2017) by Hannah Gason. Punctuating<br />
these are the deep tones of Amy Schleif’s work Seeing No.13-a<br />
(2015), a work that the artist defines as “ …exploration<br />
through the use of colour layering, reflections and the<br />
passage of time.”<br />
Other accents are provided by the rich, earthy hues and<br />
visually textured surfaces of Holly Grace’s Moonlit - Thredbo<br />
Valley (2017) and Moonlit - Mt Tantangara (2017). Digital<br />
images from photographic expeditions into the remote<br />
regions of the Australian Highlands have been translated<br />
onto the surface of large-scale glass artworks through a<br />
photo-sensitive sandblast resist technique. The resulting work<br />
is both technically and aesthetically pleasing.<br />
A startlingly beautiful work by Jessica Loughlin sums up the<br />
evocative possibilities of landscape abstraction. With its<br />
out-of-focus planes of white on white, Unfolding Continuum<br />
viii (2018) is inspired by the South Australian salt flats. The<br />
softness disallows any definitive identification of place,<br />
landmark or horizon. By way of this disorientating visual<br />
effect, Loughlin recreates the sensation of a mirage of fog<br />
enveloping a silent landscape.<br />
Brenda L Croft’s lead crystal stone axes cast during her<br />
residency at Canberra Glassworks in 2017 draw inspiration<br />
from “…the original material cultural object that found me<br />
(not the other way around) on my people’s country during<br />
site visits with Gurindji elders and community members<br />
back in June 2014.” Installed in the darkened link area of the<br />
exhibition space, Grounded (black on red), Grounded (red)<br />
and Grounded (white) resonate with the colours of the red,<br />
white and black crystal that in the artist’s words “… reference<br />
corporeality – blood and skin colour, a sliding scale of<br />
authenticity and eugenicist classification.”<br />
Taken as a whole, the works in <strong>Genius</strong> <strong>loci</strong> emit much<br />
information about the changing nature of rural and urban<br />
landscapes and the impact of man on the environment.<br />
The diversity of the artists’ approach to landscape allows<br />
for associations and dialogues to converge and diverge, for<br />
shifts in perception and to reveal the flexibility of the term<br />
‘landscape’ as viewed through the many faceted prism of art.<br />
2 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Amy Schleif<br />
Seeing No.13-a, 2015<br />
engraved glass, oil paint<br />
35 x 134.5 x 20 cm<br />
$750<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
3 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Brenda L Croft<br />
Grounded (black on red), 2018<br />
cast glass<br />
20.5 x 20.5 x 23.0 cm<br />
$4500<br />
Brenda L Croft offers her sincerest thanks for the superlative<br />
technical assistance and support from Luna Ryan, Spike Dean,<br />
Peter Nilsson and Canberra Glassworks throughout her 2018<br />
ACT Arts Residency; and Joel Bliss for metal fabrication of<br />
display stands. 20% of sale will go to Karungkarni Art and<br />
Culture Aboriginal Corporation. Brenda L Croft is represented<br />
by Niagara Galleries, Melbourne.<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
4 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Brenda L Croft<br />
Grounded (red), 2018<br />
cast glass<br />
20.5 x 20.5 x 26 cm<br />
$3500<br />
Brenda L Croft offers her sincerest thanks for the superlative<br />
technical assistance and support from Luna Ryan, Spike Dean,<br />
Peter Nilsson and Canberra Glassworks throughout her 2018<br />
ACT Arts Residency; and Joel Bliss for metal fabrication of<br />
display stands. 20% of sale will go to Karungkarni Art and<br />
Culture Aboriginal Corporation. Brenda L Croft is represented<br />
by Niagara Galleries, Melbourne.<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
5 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Brenda L Croft<br />
Grounded (white), 2018<br />
cast glass<br />
20.5 x 20.5 x 26 cm<br />
$3500<br />
Brenda L Croft offers her sincerest thanks for the superlative<br />
technical assistance and support from Luna Ryan, Spike Dean,<br />
Peter Nilsson and Canberra Glassworks throughout her 2018<br />
ACT Arts Residency; and Joel Bliss for metal fabrication of<br />
display stands. 20% of sale will go to Karungkarni Art and<br />
Culture Aboriginal Corporation. Brenda L Croft is represented<br />
by Niagara Galleries, Melbourne.<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
6 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Debra Jurss<br />
Waves, 2018<br />
hot formed and kilnformed glass<br />
20 x 50 x 6 cm<br />
$3100<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
7 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Debra Jurss<br />
Jewel bright, 2018<br />
hot formed and kilnformed glass<br />
20 x 57 x 6 cm<br />
$3100<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
8 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Brenden Scott French<br />
Received Landscape, 2018<br />
kilnformed glass<br />
64 x 80 x 4 cm<br />
$4800<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
9 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Brenden Scott French<br />
Geologic Storage Facility, 2018<br />
kilnformed glass<br />
78 x 78 x 4 cm<br />
$6900<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
10 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Brenden Scott French<br />
Frontier, 2018<br />
kilnformed glass<br />
48 x 64 x 4 cm<br />
$5500<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
11 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Denis O’Conner<br />
Winter-Remnant of Memory 2, 2017<br />
mixed media<br />
42 x 42 cm<br />
$1200<br />
Denis O’Conner<br />
Winter-Remnant of Memory 1, 2017<br />
mixed media<br />
42 x 42 cm<br />
$1200<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
12 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Emilie Patteson<br />
Instill Series, 2015<br />
Rose (Rosa species), English Lavender(Lavandula angustifolia), Persimmon (Diospyros species), Apricot<br />
(Prunus armeniaca), Chinese pistachio (Pistacia chinensis), Raspberry (Rubus species), blown,<br />
hot sculpted and assembled glass<br />
approx 30.5 x 6.5 x 6.5cm each<br />
$1100 each<br />
Photo: David Paterson<br />
13 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Hannah Gason<br />
Shift #2, 2017<br />
monotype, scratched glass<br />
29 x 29 cm<br />
$385<br />
Hannah Gason<br />
Shift #3, 2017<br />
monotype, scratched glass<br />
29 x 29 cm<br />
$385<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
14 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Holly Grace<br />
Aglow, 2018<br />
blown and sandblasted glass<br />
52 x 34 x 34 cm<br />
$5500<br />
Gaffer: Tom Rowney<br />
Photo: David MacArthur<br />
15 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Holly Grace<br />
Moonlit – Mt Tantangara, 2017<br />
blown and sandblasted glass<br />
31 x 31 x 31 cm<br />
$4500<br />
Gaffer: Tom Rowney<br />
Photo: David MacArthur<br />
16 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Holly Grace<br />
Moonlit – Thredbo Valley, 2017<br />
blown and sandblasted glass<br />
50 x 37 x 37 cm<br />
$5500<br />
Gaffer: Tom Rowney<br />
Photo: David MacArthur<br />
17 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello<br />
Ecoloclasm #1: Scorched Earth, 2018<br />
kilnformed and coldworked glass<br />
63 x 32 cm<br />
$3850<br />
Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello<br />
Ecoloclasm #2: Salt Pan, 2018<br />
kilnformed and coldworked glass<br />
63 x 32 cm<br />
$3850<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
18 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Jessica Loughlin<br />
Unfolding Continuum viii, 2016<br />
kilnformed glass<br />
46 x 167 x 2 cm<br />
$10,500<br />
Photo: Rachel Harris<br />
19 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Karen Rogers<br />
My Mothers Country, 2018<br />
approx 16 x 10 cm each<br />
Wonmari (1), Road trip to Wonmari (2), Road trip to Wonmari (3), Jaw Jaw (waterlily) (4),<br />
Dhulmarrdung (long neck turtle) (5), Pandanus (6), Margudmargud (7), Dirdbaba (8)<br />
hot formed and engraved glass<br />
$330<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
20 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Bruce Wilfred and Walter Rogers<br />
Landscape N# 1, 2018<br />
found glass, wood<br />
60 x 20 x 15 cm<br />
$500<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
21 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Bruce Wilfred and Walter Rogers<br />
Landscape N# 2, 2018<br />
found glass, wood, handmade string, bush glue<br />
50 x 25 x 5cm<br />
$500<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
22 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Lisa Cahill<br />
Travelling Light, 2018<br />
kilnformed and enamelled glass<br />
25 x 95 x 1 cm<br />
$4200<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
23 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Kirstie Rea<br />
Open door 1, 2018<br />
kilnformed glass, digital print on glass<br />
75 x 112.5 x 10 cm<br />
NFS<br />
Photo: David Paterson<br />
24 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Ngaio Fitzpatrick<br />
The Sixth Mass Extinction, 2018<br />
HD Video 1080p<br />
160 x 90 cm<br />
With thanks to Ausglass, Arts ACT,<br />
Canberra Glassworks, Alexander Hunter,<br />
Doug Lawrie, Bruce Hall, Riley Post, Justin<br />
Watson, Side Stage Productions, Angus<br />
Lawrie and Nick Adams<br />
POA<br />
Photo: Wendy Dawes<br />
25 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Janet Laurence<br />
Natural History (Landscape and Residues Series), 2008<br />
glass vials, botanical specimens, wood, steel, polished aluminium mirror<br />
150 x 200 x 50 cm<br />
NFS<br />
Photo: Adam McGrath<br />
26 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
Exhibition partners<br />
Canberra Glassworks is supported by the ACT Government through artsACT and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.<br />
Major Sponsor Exhibition accomodation partner Wine partner<br />
Cover photo: Adam McGrath<br />
27 | GENIUS LOCI | 5 APRIL TO 3 JUNE
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