Untitled #5 Metro Arts Gallery 25 May - 11 June 2016
Photos - Carl Warner
EXHIBITION BLURB
Zoe Knight’s practice is shaped by her interest in the materiality of objects, discovering and abstracting found malleable and repurposed industrial materials, as well as relationships between object, exhibition space, and viewer.
Currently, her practice seeks to draw the viewer’s attention to an awareness of their body in space and the features of the gallery. This is achieved through mapping the floor with miniature-sized objects grouped in relation to one another and coupled with dramatic lighting or architectural intervention. Objects are arranged with their formal and aesthetic features in mind especially balance, texture, and shape.
Since the materials are sourced locally – found discarded in workshops, as surplus from suppliers, in bins, and on the street – Zoe’s work reflects the social and industrial environment of the area.
The work in Untitled #5 is a development in the artist’s continued investigation into ideas that stem from Minimalism and Post-Minimalism including tactile relationships between material, process and installation. It explores Zoe’s role as maker demonstrating her involvement from the initial finding and processing of materials, on to installation options, and audience engagement. As part of the installation process audience members appear as participators and performers.
During exhibition Zoe will be inviting other artists to respond to Untitled #5 through sound for example, in order to extend the installation and encourage other ways of engagement.
Currently, her practice seeks to draw the viewer’s attention to an awareness of their body in space and the features of the gallery. This is achieved through mapping the floor with miniature-sized objects grouped in relation to one another and coupled with dramatic lighting or architectural intervention. Objects are arranged with their formal and aesthetic features in mind especially balance, texture, and shape.
Since the materials are sourced locally – found discarded in workshops, as surplus from suppliers, in bins, and on the street – Zoe’s work reflects the social and industrial environment of the area.
The work in Untitled #5 is a development in the artist’s continued investigation into ideas that stem from Minimalism and Post-Minimalism including tactile relationships between material, process and installation. It explores Zoe’s role as maker demonstrating her involvement from the initial finding and processing of materials, on to installation options, and audience engagement. As part of the installation process audience members appear as participators and performers.
During exhibition Zoe will be inviting other artists to respond to Untitled #5 through sound for example, in order to extend the installation and encourage other ways of engagement.
INSTRUCTIONS
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EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
PRODUCTIVE FIDGETS LUKE LETOURNEAU
As part of Untitled #5 I've asked some artists to produce responses to the exhibition. These will come in various forms and will either be shown online, at Metro Arts, as extra exhibition paraphernalia/ objects, or as a one night exhibition each week at Aggregate Projects. Artists involved include Courtney Coombs, Sarah Poulgrain, Kinly Grey, Louise Bennett + Caitlin Franzmann.
6PM WED 25 MAY - OPENING NIGHT
6AM WED 01 JUNE - DAWN EXHIBITION WALK THROUGH
A quiet walk through the exhibition at Metro Arts from dawn Wed 01 June. First light 6AM, sunrise 6:30AM.
6PM WED 01 JUNE - ARTIST TALK + RESPONSE: COURTNEY COOMBS
My artist talk will be an informal discussion about the work facilitated by Kim Machan (Director, MAAP-Media Art Asia Pacific) from 6pm Wed 01 June at Metro Arts.
Courtney Coombs' video response Extended (Moving) 2016, will also be on display during this time and until Sat 04 June.
Courtney Coombs' video response Extended (Moving) 2016, will also be on display during this time and until Sat 04 June.
This project is supported by MAAP - MEDIA ART ASIA PACIFIC
WEEK MON 06 JUNE - RESPONSE: LOUISE BENNETT + CAITLIN FRANZMANN
During the final week of exhibition Louise Bennett + Caitlin Franzmann's sound response will be installed within Untitled #5 at Metro Arts.
"Zoe Knight’s Untitled #5 situates intimate sculptures of repurposed materials drawing attention to transient and ephemeral qualities of the gallery space. For SonicState Festival, Louise Bennett and Caitlin Franzmann present a sonic response to the exhibition.
"For the artists, the considered placement of the objects transform the gallery floor into a universe of layered exhibition and installation history, appearing like a constellation chart. The gallery becomes massive. Every detail speaks. Simultaneously, the suspended black line transports the senses outside the window to the hum of urban earth and beyond, rendering the gallery less significant.
"11th of June 2016, Venus is entering into sextile with Uranus. The air vent outside the window continues to hum and the sculptures wait to be seen.
The collaborative sound installation imagines a moment for listening beyond limitations of distance, conflating time and space. Pre-recorded and present local ambient sounds are blended with mysterious recordings of howling Uranus and whistling Venus. The relationships between Knight's installation, viewer and gallery expand" - Louise Bennett + Caitlin Franzmann 2016
"Zoe Knight’s Untitled #5 situates intimate sculptures of repurposed materials drawing attention to transient and ephemeral qualities of the gallery space. For SonicState Festival, Louise Bennett and Caitlin Franzmann present a sonic response to the exhibition.
"For the artists, the considered placement of the objects transform the gallery floor into a universe of layered exhibition and installation history, appearing like a constellation chart. The gallery becomes massive. Every detail speaks. Simultaneously, the suspended black line transports the senses outside the window to the hum of urban earth and beyond, rendering the gallery less significant.
"11th of June 2016, Venus is entering into sextile with Uranus. The air vent outside the window continues to hum and the sculptures wait to be seen.
The collaborative sound installation imagines a moment for listening beyond limitations of distance, conflating time and space. Pre-recorded and present local ambient sounds are blended with mysterious recordings of howling Uranus and whistling Venus. The relationships between Knight's installation, viewer and gallery expand" - Louise Bennett + Caitlin Franzmann 2016
This project is included as part of the Sonic State Queensland Week Microfestival at Metro Arts Thurs-Sat 09-12 June and is supported by MAAP - MEDIA ART ASIA PACIFIC
1PM SAT 11 JUNE - DRAWING SESSION
On the final day of Untitled #5 join me from 1pm for a drawing session after FAKE estate’s Critical Brunch for Sean Kenny’s exhibition Woomb in Gallery 2.
This will be open format with the aim to figure out your way of seeing objects, the installation and gallery space. You could draw the objects, windows, lights, other people etc. Anyone is welcome, bring a buddy.
During this time you'll also exerience a collaborative sonic response to my installation by Louise Bennett + Caitlin Franzmann.
Facebook event page here
This will be open format with the aim to figure out your way of seeing objects, the installation and gallery space. You could draw the objects, windows, lights, other people etc. Anyone is welcome, bring a buddy.
During this time you'll also exerience a collaborative sonic response to my installation by Louise Bennett + Caitlin Franzmann.
Facebook event page here
6PM WED 15 JUNE - RESPONSE: SARAH POULGRAIN
TO BE CONFIRMED
Sarah Poulgrain's sculptural response to Untitled #5 will be on display at Aggregate Projects from 6PM
Sarah Poulgrain's sculptural response to Untitled #5 will be on display at Aggregate Projects from 6PM
6PM WED 22 JUNE - RESPONSE: KINLY GREY
TO BE CONFIRMED
Kinly Grey's response to Untitled #5 will be on display at Aggregate Projects from 6PM
This project is supported by MAAP - MEDIA ART ASIA PACIFIC
Kinly Grey's response to Untitled #5 will be on display at Aggregate Projects from 6PM
This project is supported by MAAP - MEDIA ART ASIA PACIFIC
EXHIBITION ARTICLE
Mel Fletcher and I sat down for a coffee the week before Untitled #5. We had a nice chat about my art practice and the upcoming exhibition. She pumped out this article for West End Magazine that same day! Have a read below.
ZOE KNIGHT'S UNTITLED #5 MEL FLETCHER 2016
Step over walk around step through
Walk forwards
Crouch down
Look left turn right
Walk forward
Window light lines
Keep moving
Walk forwards
Duck…
These are just a few of the many instructions at Zoe Knight‘s upcoming solo exhibition, ‘Untitled #5’.
Zoe Knight, an installation artist based in Brisbane will be presenting a solo show at Metro Artstitled ‘Untitled #5’. The exhibition consists of an installation made up of small objects, transformed and arranged from found materials in the local area. With a fascination in the materiality of objects and the relationship between viewer, space and object, Zoe’s exhibition will encourage the audience to “crouch”, “turn right” and “keep moving”.
By creating a suggestive and minimalist instruction manual, as well as physical obstacles, Zoe will manipulate how the audience will experience ‘Untitled #5’. “I am incorporating architectural intervention that will change how the audience navigates the space”, explains Zoe. “At my last exhibition I installed a soft ceiling at 150 cm high, so the audience had to duck their heads to view the works”.
Inspired by Minimalism and Post-Minimalism with artists such as Robert Morris and Eva Hesse, Zoe takes a hands-on approach with her process that starts from finding and gathering, to manipulating and arranging, then to installation in a gallery environment. The artist explains she “treats the space as a material”, and by doing so means the same objects read differently in different spaces, giving a unique experience to the audience.
Luke Letourneau with his essay Productive Fidgets wrote, “Zoe Knight is a hunter-gatherer. Copper, wood, rope, foam; these are all re-circulated from the world into her exhibitions. The artist knots and bends these materials into new shapes and forms that are then scattered across the gallery floor. Through this process, her practice draws attention to how we consider and ascribe value to materials and labour, as well as how this is navigated through space and time.”
As well as exhibiting a solo show at Metro Arts, Zoe will be starting her first ever artist residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina in September, then another in Morocco in January. Surrounded by new environments Zoe is excited to see how her works develop, using new materials that reflect the country’s society.
Untitled #5 will open at Metro Arts from May 25 until June 11, with an artist talk on June 1.
Text available here
Walk forwards
Crouch down
Look left turn right
Walk forward
Window light lines
Keep moving
Walk forwards
Duck…
These are just a few of the many instructions at Zoe Knight‘s upcoming solo exhibition, ‘Untitled #5’.
Zoe Knight, an installation artist based in Brisbane will be presenting a solo show at Metro Artstitled ‘Untitled #5’. The exhibition consists of an installation made up of small objects, transformed and arranged from found materials in the local area. With a fascination in the materiality of objects and the relationship between viewer, space and object, Zoe’s exhibition will encourage the audience to “crouch”, “turn right” and “keep moving”.
By creating a suggestive and minimalist instruction manual, as well as physical obstacles, Zoe will manipulate how the audience will experience ‘Untitled #5’. “I am incorporating architectural intervention that will change how the audience navigates the space”, explains Zoe. “At my last exhibition I installed a soft ceiling at 150 cm high, so the audience had to duck their heads to view the works”.
Inspired by Minimalism and Post-Minimalism with artists such as Robert Morris and Eva Hesse, Zoe takes a hands-on approach with her process that starts from finding and gathering, to manipulating and arranging, then to installation in a gallery environment. The artist explains she “treats the space as a material”, and by doing so means the same objects read differently in different spaces, giving a unique experience to the audience.
Luke Letourneau with his essay Productive Fidgets wrote, “Zoe Knight is a hunter-gatherer. Copper, wood, rope, foam; these are all re-circulated from the world into her exhibitions. The artist knots and bends these materials into new shapes and forms that are then scattered across the gallery floor. Through this process, her practice draws attention to how we consider and ascribe value to materials and labour, as well as how this is navigated through space and time.”
As well as exhibiting a solo show at Metro Arts, Zoe will be starting her first ever artist residency in Buenos Aires, Argentina in September, then another in Morocco in January. Surrounded by new environments Zoe is excited to see how her works develop, using new materials that reflect the country’s society.
Untitled #5 will open at Metro Arts from May 25 until June 11, with an artist talk on June 1.
Text available here