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ONESPACE PICKS 2021 | Artworks chosen by us, to be

ONESPACE PICKS 2021 | Artworks chosen by us, to be gifted by you!

Taylor Hall (Gallery Communications) has chosen ‘The morphology of light’ by Ross Booker:

'One of my favourite works exhibited in 2021 is Ross Booker’s ‘The morphology of light’. Aside from being an aesthetically arresting piece— dramatic black pathways snake organically through soft, glistening graphite— the work holds more hope for me than ever before.

Created in 2020, Booker’s choice to work in a dark colour palette by utilising heat-treated materials such as graphite, runs parallel with Australia’s infamous ‘Black Summer’ bushfires. At the time this tragedy and loss was incomprehensible and permeated our present memory of this sunburnt country. Now, we reflect on a year of hardship and loss with a more united approach to regenerating our warming world. Sir David Attenborough proclaimed in his recent address at the COP26 Climate Summit “Nature is a key ally, whenever we restore the wild it will recapture carbon and help us bring back balance to our planet.”

Booker’s work reminds me of the strength and resilience of our environment— that after fire there can be growth and with balance, comes hope.'

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Take a peek at our online stockroom to enquire about ‘The morphology of light’ and other available works at onespacegallery.com.au

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Artwork: Ross Booker, The morphology of light, 2020
Ink, gesso and graphite on paper, 92cm x 125cm (framed). Photo: Louis Lim. Courtesy of Onespace Gallery and the artist.

Onespace is excited to announce a 3 day sale of wo

Onespace is excited to announce a 3 day sale of works from the stockroom. From today until midnight on Sunday (28 Nov) - all black and white artworks from our online stockroom will be discounted by 10%.

Head over to onespacegallery.com.au to find your favourite b+w work!

ONESPACE PICKS 2021 | Artworks chosen by us, to be

Katsugi (ancient term from Ijika, Japan which can

Katsugi (ancient term from Ijika, Japan which can be translated as ‘dive’ in English) is a two-person exhibition that brings together Japanese Ama diver Aiko Ohno’s documentary style photography, and recent works by Zoe Porter featuring depictions of the ama (female free divers) and other plant-human, animal-hybrid forms within otherworldly landscapes. The two artists have collaborated on a series of photographs taken by Ohno, whereby Porter has transformed the ama divers into hybridised, future beings dislocated from their recognisable coastal environment.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The exhibition connects these two artists from different backgrounds and different continents during a time when global travel isn’t possible. Within these new works by Porter, there exists imaginary hybrid plant-human creatures and oceanic monsters that coalesce within strange sci-fi, underwater scenes that refer to film, dream states and the impacts of ocean pollution and degradation. The individual works by both artists, and their collaboration, aims to emphasise the significance of the continuation of the ama divers ancient fishing practices, despite current ecological damage. Katsugi also highlights the possibilities for cultural exchange and collaboration, despite being unable to travel internationally.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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RSVP to Opening: We would like to invite you to the launch of our last exhibition for 2021, 'Katsugi (Dive)' on Friday 10 December, 2021 (hourly sessions from 5-8pm). Link to RSVP via bio. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Image: Aiko Ohno & Zoe Porter, Ijika Ama with Awabi Catch, 2021, Digital print on Hahnemuhle paper, ink, watercolour, pencil, embroidery thread. Image- 70.5cm x 100cm. Framed – 93cm x 126cm. Photo: Joe Ruckli.

Featured on Explore Sydney Contemporary 'Remains S

Featured on Explore Sydney Contemporary 'Remains S4.1' by Dan Elborne. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Artwork: Dan Elborne, Remains S4.1, 2021, animal bone, ceramic reclaim, ash, lead & 22k gold leaf, 28.5 x 13 x 16cm. Images: Aaron Mcauley. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

Featured on Explore Sydney Contemporary 'Speculati

Featured on Explore Sydney Contemporary 'Speculative structure #1' by Nicola Scott. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Artwork: Nicola Scott, Speculative structure #1, 2021, Oil on linen, 61 x 61cm. Photo by Joe Ruckli.

Featured on Explore Sydney Contemporary 'Remains S

Featured on Explore Sydney Contemporary 'Remains S4.13 - S4.15,' by Dan Elborne. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Artwork: Dan Elborne, Remains S4.13 - S4.15, 2021, Animal bone, ceramic reclaim, ash, lead & 22k gold leaf, 19.5 x 5 x 7cm - 3 pieces. Images: Aaron Mcauley. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

Featured on Explore Sydney Contemporary 'Plasma,'

Featured on Explore Sydney Contemporary 'Plasma,' by Nicola Scott. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Artwork: Plasma, 2021, oil on linen, 91.5 x 61cm. Photo by Joe Ruckli.

Our latest online feature, Welcome to the Dreamhou

Our latest online feature, Welcome to the Dreamhouse by Amy Carkeek, examines the American neoliberal dream’s influence on Australia and our increasing aspiration for homeownership and the commodified good life. The work employs the suburban gothic to interrogate the dream’s decaying and anachronistic façade as conveyed through the suburban fantasy.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Through the found, readymade object and newly formed combinations, Welcome to the Dreamhouse seeks to disclose the hollow embellishments of the commodity object's surface, its construction of sentimentalised childhood narratives, and our collective denial for the dream’s illusory exterior.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Welcome to the Dreamhouse is visually seductive, with the darkness of its undercurrents corroding an appealing surface patina as childhood narratives are dismantled proven hollow as new dysfunctional realities emerge. At its heart, it is a reminder of the falsity of the objects to which we may aspire and the foundational narratives that drive our ‘wants’, with a salutary tale about the imperatives within change and the precarious nature of innocence.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Artwork Featured: Assume all responsibility, 2018, Archival inkjet print, 120 x 80cm Edition of 5. Image courtesy of the artist.

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Featured on Explore Sydney Contemporary's online platform is represented artist Dan Elborne. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Essay catalogue writer Sandy Pottinger states: '(Elborne is) aware that the human spirit has a rare and pure quality—that, despite its vulnerability, there is a tenacity, a resilience, a sense of permanence... these too are the qualities of clay, his chosen medium...' ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Remains S4.2 (pictured) is still available. Explore the platform via the link in our bio to view this work and more. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Artwork: Dan Elborne, Remains S4.2, 2021, Animal bone, ceramic reclaim, ash, lead & 22k gold leaf, 26 x 13 x 17cm. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Images: Aaron Mcauley. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

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Featured on Explore Sydney Contemporary's online platform is represented artist Nicola Scott. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Described by catalogue essay writer Julia Scott Green as 'smart, seductive and discreetly subversive'. Scott explores holography, a three-dimensional illusionary technique that records the liquidity and reflective ability of layered light waves and colour, onto a 2D picture plane.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Artwork: Nicola Scott, Untitled, 2021, Oil on linen, 112.5 x 183.5cm. Image: Joe Ruckli. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery.

Explore Sydney Contemporary 2021 is now online!⠀

Explore Sydney Contemporary 2021 is now online!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We are proud to feature two of our strongest early career artists - conceptual ceramicist, Dan Elborne, based in Melbourne and contemporary painter, Nicola Scott based in Brisbane.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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DAN ELBORNE’s works are technically proficient and conceptually rich. Often working in multiple edition series, he tackles profound broad reaching subjects with an intellectually adept and physically proficient expression. As part of Explore Sydney Contemporary, Elborne will present a total of 65 porcelain books and 15 unique sculptural pieces – each seeing bone preserved using a specially created mixture of ceramic, lead and gold leaf.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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(Elborne) is aware that the human spirit has a rare and pure quality—that, despite its vulnerability, there is a tenacity, a resilience, a sense of permanence. These too are the qualities of clay, his chosen medium... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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In her new works, NICOLA SCOTT explores holography, a three-dimensional illusionary technique that records the liquidity and reflective ability of layered light waves and colour, onto a 2D picture plane. The curious, multilayered textures contained in each work suggest traces of plastic, brushes, alternating opacity and gesture. Due to the depth created by interlocking and overlaying shapes and hues, each work implies an impossible depth, forms appear to hang in non-existent space. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Viewing Scott’s paintings is a thoroughly embodied affair, coaxing us out of language and thinking, back to bare sensation. [Julia Scott Green]⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Images: Dan Elborne, 2019. Photo: James Green. Nicola Scott, 2020. Photo: Louis Lim.

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