27 January — 26 February 2022

Charlie Donaldson, Ursula Larin, Tim Meakins, Tara Pattenden, David Spooner, Emily Galicek and Kieran Bryant.

Charlie Donaldson, *Ashtray* (2021) plaster, ceramic transfer, found object, electronics. Image: the artist

Curated by Outer Space's programming committee, Snapshot - Take 2 brings together the work of seven emerging artists.

Charlie Donaldson is a Meanjin-based multidisciplinary artist. In 2021, Donaldson completed a Master of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art. They have held solo exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, and participated in artist residency programs in the United States and Europe. Donaldson was a finalist in the 2016 Churchie art prize, as well as the 2017 and 2020 Bermingham prizes.

Ursula Larin is a Brisbane-based artist who uses sculpture, video, photography, and installation to reinterpret small, poignant moments from her everyday experience. Her sculptures draw inspiration from or closely replicate the peculiar details from these moments through an assemblage of scrap, craft and building materials and an amateur, do-it-yourself skillset. These sculptures function as allegories that use humour, parody, and childlike playfulness to explore personal narratives and existential quandaries around the absurd, awkward and confusing aspects of the human experience. Ursula completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Art) (Honours) at the Queensland University of Technology in 2016. She has exhibited in Brisbane at Metro Arts and various local artist-run initiatives, including Cut Thumb, Cut Thumb Laundry, and Kunstbunker.

Tim Meakins works across sculpture, painting, print, animation and publishing and employs a visual grammar drawn from the history (and present) of computer graphics/operating systems and cartoons to create intensely energetic propositions around the ever-mutating forms, limits, plasticity, optical register and possibilities of digital and analogue states-of-being.

David Spooner searches for hidden structures within his wild and scattered practice. He weaves connections between seemingly unrelated ideas and materials to make new work, and in the process reveals the complexity of the inner logic that drives his practice. Working with textiles, drawing and found objects, Spooner knits, sews and stitches installations and works that play with literal and imaginative narratives. Since 2017 Spooner has set himself an annual drawing challenge, beginning with a drawing a week and since 2018 completing a drawing a day, using permanent markers and the same size page. Spooner holds a Masters of Visual Arts from the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University (2008) a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours from Queensland University of Technology (2003) and a Graduate Diploma of Education (Early Years) (2010) also from QUT.

Tara Pattenden is an artist, creative technologist and educator who produces works that engage the audience, encourage play and democratise creativity. For the past 20 years Tara Pattenden has developed workshops in diverse contexts; project managed festivals and tours; and founded and managed arts spaces, exhibitions and online festivals throughout Australia, Europe, USA and Asia. As Phantom Chips she creates live participatory performances and music compositions using hand-built instruments of her own design. These wearable, fabric-based electronic instruments enable new expressive ways to play music and invite audience participation to create sound through movements and gestures (stretching, stroking and squeezing). She has performed and run workshops worldwide including at the Onassis Foundation in Athens, V&A Museum in London, Tectonics Festival in Glasgow and Novas Frequencias festival in Rio de Janeiro.

Emily Galicek is an artist living and working on Gadigal land/Sydney. She completed a Master of Fine Arts (Research) at the University of New South Wales in 2019. Emily’s recent work considers painting as a post-digital output. She is particularly interested in the translation of digital content, imagery and methodologies to the physical painted space. She is also interested in painting’s capacity to embody humour and parody.

Kieran Bryant is an emerging artist who loves water and its metaphorical possibilities. He uses performance, collaborative actions, installation, photography, sculpture, video, and text to identify interior liquid landscapes and emotional wateriness within queer bodies. His work is autobiographical; employing a pastiche of popular culture modes and sources to craft a singular narrative.

Exhibition Text

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