CURATOR'S STATEMENT
What lies in the future? What
exists beyond death? What occurs beyond our comfort zone?
These and other notions concerned with the ‘Beyond’ have captured our imaginations for decades. These questions have inspired artists around the world to use their unique styles and techniques to explore what is beyond our understanding. This exhibition will focus on four artworks which revolve around the concept ‘Beyond’: Lucy Kaiser’s You Decide and Party Time, Jill Orr’s To Bear and Behold and Andy Goldsworthy’s Rowan Leaves and Hole. The installation piece You Decide by Lucy Kaiser, explores the theme of human choice in relation to our engagement with the environment and asks questions related to its future and fate. Party Time is a performance piece which has a future thinking focus. The work invites participants to experience the possible outcome for society if we continue to rely predominately on technology. Jill Orr’s Southern Cross - To Bear and Behold references an environmental theme and man’s proclivity towards the destruction of our natural world. Lastly, Andy Goldsworthy’s found material sculpture Rowan Leaves and a Circle aims to remind the viewer of the natural processes that occur beyond what is merely seen on the surface and reinforces the need for humanity to preserve the world around us.
These and other notions concerned with the ‘Beyond’ have captured our imaginations for decades. These questions have inspired artists around the world to use their unique styles and techniques to explore what is beyond our understanding. This exhibition will focus on four artworks which revolve around the concept ‘Beyond’: Lucy Kaiser’s You Decide and Party Time, Jill Orr’s To Bear and Behold and Andy Goldsworthy’s Rowan Leaves and Hole. The installation piece You Decide by Lucy Kaiser, explores the theme of human choice in relation to our engagement with the environment and asks questions related to its future and fate. Party Time is a performance piece which has a future thinking focus. The work invites participants to experience the possible outcome for society if we continue to rely predominately on technology. Jill Orr’s Southern Cross - To Bear and Behold references an environmental theme and man’s proclivity towards the destruction of our natural world. Lastly, Andy Goldsworthy’s found material sculpture Rowan Leaves and a Circle aims to remind the viewer of the natural processes that occur beyond what is merely seen on the surface and reinforces the need for humanity to preserve the world around us.