Over the past year, we in regional Australia have experienced waves of crises – drought, fire, flood, and pandemic. While other sectors of the economy have received life-saving financial infusions during pandemic lockdowns, higher education has been all but abandoned by the Federal Government. With creative industries and the liberal arts threatened almost to extinction, we in the Creative Practice Circle have turned our attention to what might grow “on thin soil” or “between the cracks.” In a world of hyperobjects – climate change, neoliberalism – we insist on the value of being small (hyposubjects), and of investigating the particular, using whatever materials come to hand (bricolage). We are interested in interdisciplinary inquiry, reaching out to explore crevice communities with scientists, artists, academics and members of small, alternative and/or marginalised communities. While this provocation emanates from Australia, we are interested in international perspectives on life in the “cracks and hollows” of a world in crisis.
This online exhibition, Crevice Communities, opened to the public on December 17, 2021.
Affrica Taylor
The Gift of Grandmother Shimmer Power 2021
Short narrated video (7mins) and original textile work on old linen (32x28mm).
Bärbel Ullrich
From Another Land Mixed media altered book size variable within the dimensions of 15cmxL20cmxW26cm
Donna Caffrey
Falling through the Cracks
Mixed media/textiles
Frank Prem
Voices (In The Trash)
Video and still images
Jacqui O’Reilly
Return from Erasure 2021
Sound and moving image 2.39min
Jenni Munday
Please, take a seat 2021
4 x digital photographs
Jock Cheetham
Running in to Grief 2021
Video: 3 minutes 18 seconds
Karen Golland
Afterglow 2021
Video
Karla Kelsey and Nancy Kuhl
Lift, Lace, Sharpen, Unpick, Ground, Play: An Interstitial Collaboration 2021
Poetry
Leanne O’Toole
Booti Booti 2021 (after Christian Thompson (1))
Two canvas gallery hang; mixed beads, threads 16″ x 20″
Louise Curham
Above Gudgenby River 2020
Still frame photography and video
Lynnette Callaghan
WELL-BEING 2021
Mixed media on Canvas. Height 81cm, width 102cm
Marg Leddin
Cicada Swarm 2021
Photography, photography paper 300mm x 700mm
Milena Popov – Nena
Four Seasons
Video, colour, sound
Nancy Kuhl
Rock and Root 2021
Sam Bowker
“To Steal the Goose from off the Common” 2021
Site-specific installation – Street art/ folk art activism
Sandra Stewart
Revealing hidden crevices 2021
Mixed Media Collage
The River Yarners
‘Yarnbombed bench’ Bathurst 2021
Knitted and crocheted branches and leaves, wool and acrylic. Approx. 1m x 0.5m
Tracy Sorensen
Meat Tray 2021
Digital image of temporary installation (26 x 36 x 5cm) of lamb’s liver, parsley, cotton, plastic doll hands on refrigerator shelf.
