SUPERCUT - PROJECT 3
25 July - 4 September 2022
Bella Deary, Tiana Jefferies, Daniel Sherington, Emma Wilson and Marilena Hewitt
Bella DEARY / Modern Guide for Planetary Survival 2022 / interactive animated website [still] / dimensions variable
SUPERCUT - Project 3 brings together the practices of Bella Deary, Tiana Jefferies, Daniel Sherington, Emma Wilson and Marilena Hewitt, in an urgent exploration of climate across our current environmental and social crisis.
Bella Deary is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based visual artist whose practice gathers influence from ecological philosophy and eco-science to promote the equality of all life forms. Bella completed a BFA in Visual Arts in 2020 (QUT), and has since commenced a Masters of Philosophy at QUT under an Australian Government RTP Scholarship. Her art and research responds to the critical issue of climate change which defines this era, known as the Anthropocene. By developing interactive latex-based installations, video projections and digital work, Bella’s artistic practice seeks to dismantle the hierarchy between human and non-human life and embody eco-centric ideals. Her work has been shown throughout Brisbane, Ipswich, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.
Tiana Jefferies is a Meanjin based spatial practitioner using casting, digital modelling, projection, and installation. Her playful, interdisciplinary practice aims to engage with the visceral forces and feelings provoked by the current ecological crisis. Intersecting interests in queer theory and irreverent ecocriticism have guided her practice to more deeply consider questions of disposition, feeling and affect. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the Queensland College of Art and in 2018 studied at the Edinburgh College of Art. In 2021, she graduated with a Master of Philosophy from the Queensland University of Technology and was awarded the Dorothy Birt Memorial Prize for Experimental Practice. She has exhibited at The Old Lock Up, Wreckers Art Space, Metro Arts, The Walls and was included in the Sydney College of Art’s Birds and Language conference.
Daniel Sherington is a Meanjin/Brisbane based artist whose work critically reframes western conventions of art making to better understand their connotations. His practice filters traditional processes of making with a digital means of production. Sherington’s works are circulatory in nature, with images often iterated, reworked and dispersed amongst new contexts and materials to adopt different meanings.
Emma Wilson works across live performance and digitally mediated experiences, living and working on unceded Jagera and Turrbal land in the Moreton Bay Region northwest of Brisbane. Her practice creates and performs experiments in embodied thinking and doing, often collectively, cooperatively and collaboratively, and finds its expression through choreographic and screendance practices. In 2016 Emma co-founded an artist run initiative called Open Practice in Brisbane, a platform operating through the sharing of artistic practice. Emma is interested in locating her practice within this collective space as she values the multiplicity of perspectives which both breaks down and expands her thinking through the input of many minds and bodies. Emma regularly engages in reflective and critical writing as part of her practice. In 2020 she contributed a written piece to the ‘Why Does Dance Matter Now?’ series commissioned by Delving Into Dance and Critical Path.
Marilena Hewitt is a queer architecture graduate, designer, independent arts publisher and film maker, living and working on unceded Jagera and Turrbal land. Their practice is obsessed with documenting mass extinction with love, humour and care and believes hope resides in the biosphere and the human and non-humans who understand it the most. Their multidisciplinary practice hopes to (re)consider the anthropocene, to never erase nor develop over something, to truly consider something as it is from a unique perspective. Or at the very least, to create an elaborate meme for those who are also anxious about mass extinction.
SUPERCUT is supported by the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund – an Australian Government Initiative and is presented in partnership with Artspace Mackay and Northsite Contemporary Arts, Cairns.