Macquarie University presents the second part of a survey exhibition featuring the work of artist Ruark Lewis.
The exhibition, which opens February 6, is sourced from three decades of practice. It features collaborative works produced in association with artists, Barayuwa Mununggurr, Jonathan Jones and author and historian, Paul Carter.
The exhibition involves the purposeful exchange of ideas between Lewis and the three others. The inclusion of supplementary works adjusts the curatorial focus towards Lewis’ efforts as both artistic partner and curator.
As a curator, Lewis participated within a network of young experimental artists and writers who shared his interest in working across different genres. Deepening these rates of exchange saw Lewis edging toward a more direct collaborative partnership which now includes artist Jonathan Jones, a member of the Wiradjuri and Kamolaroi nations and Barayuwa Mununggurr, one of a group of emerging young artists from Yirrkala in Arnhem Land.
In the mix is writer, author and thinker Paul Carter. Lewis admired Carter’s skill in charting ephemeral acts of place making while Carter saw in Lewis’ drawings a space imbued with performance and thus well suited to a multilayered treatment of colonial history.
Ruark Lewis: Survey Part II offers an opportunity to focus on thoughtlines and the connection of three geographical regions across Australia. Markings are inscribed across material surfaces to connect visual, literary, musical and sculptural traditions. They manifest as lines, scribbles, patterned poems consisting of single words and phrases, or entire texts disguised by careful layering devices. More dramatically, a site-specific work is to be created during the installation.
The exhibition, curated by Dr James Paull, will be opened by Professor Michael Tawa, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney.
What: Ruark Lewis: Survey Part II
Where: Macquarie University Art Gallery (Bldg E11A)
When: February 6 – March 13, 2013
The exhibition, which opens February 6, is sourced from three decades of practice. It features collaborative works produced in association with artists, Barayuwa Mununggurr, Jonathan Jones and author and historian, Paul Carter.
The exhibition involves the purposeful exchange of ideas between Lewis and the three others. The inclusion of supplementary works adjusts the curatorial focus towards Lewis’ efforts as both artistic partner and curator.
As a curator, Lewis participated within a network of young experimental artists and writers who shared his interest in working across different genres. Deepening these rates of exchange saw Lewis edging toward a more direct collaborative partnership which now includes artist Jonathan Jones, a member of the Wiradjuri and Kamolaroi nations and Barayuwa Mununggurr, one of a group of emerging young artists from Yirrkala in Arnhem Land.
In the mix is writer, author and thinker Paul Carter. Lewis admired Carter’s skill in charting ephemeral acts of place making while Carter saw in Lewis’ drawings a space imbued with performance and thus well suited to a multilayered treatment of colonial history.
Ruark Lewis: Survey Part II offers an opportunity to focus on thoughtlines and the connection of three geographical regions across Australia. Markings are inscribed across material surfaces to connect visual, literary, musical and sculptural traditions. They manifest as lines, scribbles, patterned poems consisting of single words and phrases, or entire texts disguised by careful layering devices. More dramatically, a site-specific work is to be created during the installation.
The exhibition, curated by Dr James Paull, will be opened by Professor Michael Tawa, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney.
What: Ruark Lewis: Survey Part II
Where: Macquarie University Art Gallery (Bldg E11A)
When: February 6 – March 13, 2013
