What’s Good For You
Hailey Atkins
5 — 20 October 2018
Opening Reception: 5 October 2018, 6 - 9pm
Hailey Atkins is a sculptural artist whose practice focuses on ways of navigating and articulating experiences related to 'not-knowing’. Through gesture, form and materials, her work expresses the sometimes funny, sometimes gloomy, always awkward feelings that result when occupying the in-between spaces of ambivalence, and how this is often felt as failure. Using a combination of anecdotal visual puns and visceral materiality, she seeks to present a relatable, uplifting experience of 'not-knowing', self-doubt and never ending existential worrying—an alternate vision of the world occupied by objects that remind us sense doesn’t need to be made of everything.
What's Good for You presents and extends upon a body of work created during a three-month residency at Kaus Australis in Rotterdam (NL), which focussed on exploring and dealing with the discomfort and absurdity surrounding notions of repair, carrying, holding on and leaving behind. Her work ponders questions such as: 'at what point should you stop trying to make something better and just leave it behind in the bush where you found it?’
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This project has been assisted by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland |
| Exhibition documentation: Charlie Hillhouse |