Running until Sunday 24 April, Bunjil Place Gallery is home to the thought-provoking art exhibition ‘One foot on the ground, one foot in the water’.
Already in its second month at the gallery, the exhibition showcases over 20 artworks from 11 contemporary artists including Catherine Bell, Timothy Cook, French & Mottershead, Mabel Juli, Richard Lewer, Sara Morawetz, Michael Needham, Nell, Patrick Freddy Puruntatameri, Nawurapu Wunuŋmurra.
The collection of paintings, sculptures, installations and sound works centres on the subject of our own mortality and draws on experiences of grief, transience and remembrance.
“The immediacy of loss is one of the most difficult experiences to articulate in words,” said exhibition curator Travis Curtin.
“One foot on the ground, one foot in the water tests what an art exhibition can do to express the complexities and mysteries of the emotional experiences surrounding death and loss that reverberate through time.”
The exhibition features paintings in charcoal and earth pigments, ceramic, glass, tatami mats made of igusa (woven soft rush straw grown in marsh areas) and sculptural works made from wood, plaster, oxidised steel and cast iron.
One foot on the ground, one foot in the water is a LaTrobe Art Institute exhibition.
