WINDOWSMITHS
GALLERY
TOUCH BY FLUX
By Nanette and Laura
A collaborative project expressing themes of control and absence. Join us for the Opening and Exhibition!​
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Opening: November 14th, 6–8 pm
Exhibition: November 11th–24th
ABOUT FLUX
Laura and Nanette touched each other first in early 2020 when they sat back to back at the TAFE jewellery benches.
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This 6 month course got interrupted, as everyone was during 2020. Laura was able to spend some of the time out of Sydney in the Hunter Valley. To keep in-touch with eachother and Jewelley Laura and Nanette shared pieces of their surroundings with eachother and with other jewellery friends. They used these items to create new works and all got into meetups on zoom to work on the projects, some communal, other projects where they used the same items and gave their own designs and interpretations to the jewellery.
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WILD , 2020/2021, wood, chain, silver wire.
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Nanette’s work shows how people try to tame and control nature and organisms. Beautiful expressive wood is tied up by chains, trying to command control. All over the world people were trying to control a virus the same way People have tried to control nature with interventions. Trees and wood are by forming along wires, animals are kept in line in paddocks lined with barbwire nailed to wooden sticks.
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Nature is cut, controlled, shaped and altered by and for the crowds.
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The pieces shown consist of wood, silver wires that lock in the chains that appear to control the wood.
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Laura felt so much absence and wanted to reflect that in her piece ‘MISSING’. She has used local stone that had been fractured and has tried to recreate the missing piece. Not faithfully but with materials to hand. Making do was a large part of juggling pandemic life.
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Filling roles we had not had to before, missing resources both tangible and emotional that were no longer available. This created new forms and ideas not yet imagined.
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​Nanette and Laura.