New Art Exhibition 'Between Us' to Launch
Port Pirie Regional Art Gallery is delighted to present Between Us, a major solo exhibition by New Zealand born, South Australian based, artist Gail Hocking exploring relational dynamics with landscape(s) and their ecologies fore fronted with understanding, intimacy and care.
Using the mediums of sculpture, ceramics, installation and sound, Hocking renders imagery of roots, breath, limbs, arteries and ice with an ambiguity that blurs the line between human and non-human forms, emphasising our sameness and thesymbiotic necessity essential to our existence.
Within the exhibition an immersive installation Standing at the edge of memory explores Hocking’s feelings of grief and loss for Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere (Franz Josef Glacier) – a site near her childhood home in Aotearoa (New Zealand) – as its ice perpetually melts. Conceived as her love song to the Glacier, Hocking relates the weeping ice to the shedding of tears.
Whilst steeped in scientific research, Hocking draws upon memory to share her reverence and connection to this incredible natural formation and in doing so demonstrates a profound understanding of its ecological and emotional significance.
The resulting exhibition is a poetic and haunting exploration of global climate concerns through a deeply personal lens.
Gail Hocking: Between Us has been commissioned by Country Arts SA through the Breaking Ground Award and was first presented at Praxis Artspace during the 2023 SALA Festival.
Between Us launches this Friday 8 December 5.30pm and features Artist talks with Gail Hocking.
Free tickets to the launch event are available via Eventbrite: Between Us Exhibition Launch Event Tickets, Fri 08/12/2023 at 5:30 pm | Eventbrite
The exhibition will then be open daily until Sunday 28 January 2024 (Closed Christmas Day).
Image credits: Gail Hocking, At the edge of memory, 2023, muslin, casting plaster, blended wax, steel, site-specific installation, dimensions variable. Photo: Sam Roberts.
