CURATORIAL PROJECTS
DREAM WEAVERS
Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST), Hobart
June 2010
Curated by Kate Just and Daine Singer
Artists: Alasdair McLuckie, Dylan Martorell, Kate Just, Michelle Hanlin, Nathan Gray, James Eisen, Jacque Drinkall, Sean Bailey, Belle Bassin
Dream Weavers brought together artists using aesthetics and interests most strongly associated with New Age and counter-cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s, as a means of reappraising the power of mysticism, paganism, the supernatural, arcane symbolism, folk, goddess worship and tribalism.
This desire to reintegrate archaic and animist belief systems back into dominant Western culture has a strong lineage in art history that is widely evidenced in art movements such as primitivism, surrealism, folk art, land art and feminism. In the tradition of artists before them, the nine artists in Dream Weavers wielded aptly constructive and process oriented techniques: including performance, collage, knitting, clay modelling, assemblage, mixed media installation, patterned drawing and experimental music. Many of them reinterpreted or conversed with previous artists and their works, while others relied on forms of layering, selectively obscuring images or materials.
Installation view
Installation view
Dylan Martorell
Belle Bassin
Sean Bailey
Kate Just
Alasdair McLuckie
Nathan Gray
Jacque Drinkall
James Eisen
Michelle Hanlin
Contemporary Art Spaces Tasmania (CAST), Hobart
June 2010
Curated by Kate Just and Daine Singer
Artists: Alasdair McLuckie, Dylan Martorell, Kate Just, Michelle Hanlin, Nathan Gray, James Eisen, Jacque Drinkall, Sean Bailey, Belle Bassin
Dream Weavers brought together artists using aesthetics and interests most strongly associated with New Age and counter-cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s, as a means of reappraising the power of mysticism, paganism, the supernatural, arcane symbolism, folk, goddess worship and tribalism.
This desire to reintegrate archaic and animist belief systems back into dominant Western culture has a strong lineage in art history that is widely evidenced in art movements such as primitivism, surrealism, folk art, land art and feminism. In the tradition of artists before them, the nine artists in Dream Weavers wielded aptly constructive and process oriented techniques: including performance, collage, knitting, clay modelling, assemblage, mixed media installation, patterned drawing and experimental music. Many of them reinterpreted or conversed with previous artists and their works, while others relied on forms of layering, selectively obscuring images or materials.
Installation view
Installation view
Dylan Martorell
Belle Bassin
Sean Bailey
Kate Just
Alasdair McLuckie
Nathan Gray
Jacque Drinkall
James Eisen
Michelle Hanlin
