breathing space
breathing space brings together works that embrace the cyclic and fluid rhythms of breath, memory and time.
The works of art, through process and form, draw focus to each of the artist’s own unique relationship with materiality in relation to place.
Embodying ideas of movement and stillness, permanence and impermanence, presence and absence – the works can be understood as elemental intermediaries that articulate a sacred relationship between the body and the earth.
Location
Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Artists
Tamara Baillie, Lauren Gower, Nicole Foreshew, Patrina Mununggurr, Nanette Shaw, Simone Slee
Curator Jessica Clark
Dates 27 July–28 August 2021
breathing space 2021, installation view, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne. Photograph: Christo Crocker
breathing space 2021, installation view, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne. Photograph: Christo Crocker
Patrina Mununggurr, Gurrkurr Dhälkuma – Strengthening the Bloodlines (installation view), 2018–20, video (silent), 6:54 mins, breathing space, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Naarm (Melbourne) 2021, curator Jessica Clark. Photograph: Christo Crocker.
breathing space 2021, installation view, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne. Photograph: Christo Crocker
Nannette Shaw with Fiona Hughes, Honouring my ancestral women (detail) 2020–21, 105 kelp vessels: kelp, Tea-tree, and hand-made river reed string, dimensions variable, breathing space, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Naarm (Melbourne) 2021, curator Jessica Clark. Photograph: Christo Crocker
breathing space 2021, installation view, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne. Photograph: Christo Crocker