This exhibition explored failure, the faux and the fake as recognised and celebrated parts of artistic strategy. It explored how the reversals and the gaps between intention and realisation in creative production are often more interesting than the more orthodox ideas of success and completion. Failures and mistakes can often give rise to more open ended, less dogmatic space, where questions can be left unanswered and incongruencies left unresolved. By resisting the authority of what …
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‘Where Ideas Begin’ (Installation at Bondi Pavilion with Oliver Wagner)
"I think art and thinking are ways of tuning rather than imposing your concept or getting something to fit. It's like listening, like attunement. Something is already there and your task is to tune to it." ~ Timothy Morton In early 2019 I was not long out of graduating from my Master in Fine Art from the National Art School. At the time I was starting to develop new work. One of the things occupying my thinking was: where do ideas begin. Danish artist Olafur Eliasson describes this place as an …