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Coming out of the ritualistic hibernation of the cooler seasons, Kindling is an exhibition that explores the duality of fire: the destructive and the regenerative, alluding to the warmth of community and the necessity for collective change.
Featuring works by artists from Mimili Maku Arts alongside represented artists, Kindling explores fire from an aesthetic and conceptual level, drawing links between protest, chosen family, and self-reflection.
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Artists.
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Tom Blake
FInd out more.Tom Blake’s practice draws on fragmented moments, looped imagery and recurring motifs as potential sites for contemplating the psychological, architectural and technological frameworks that surround us.
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Casey Chen
Find out more.Casey Chen’s ceramics practice references historical illustrations from an eclectic mix of folklore, mythology and pop culture. Blending childhood nostalgia with long-standing East Asian ceramic traditions, his work becomes a dynamic conversation between traditional craft and contemporary perspective.
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Aidan Hartshorn
Find out more.Aidan Hartshorn’s (Walgalu/Wiradjuri) practice examines the intersection of colonisation, environmental degradation, and cultural loss, often using industrial glass to create objects that reflect his heritage and the ecological damage.
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Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro
Find out more.Working as a collaborative duo since 2001, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro’s practice reflects a preoccupation with the dynamics of global mobility, fallout of consumer society, and contemporary notion of home.
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Savannah Jarvis
Find out more.Savannah Jarvis is an Meanjin/Brisbane artist whose multidisciplinary practice investigates the complex relationship between pain, the medical body and language, her work is underpinned by the notion that pain is inexpressible in language alone.
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Joan Ross
FInd out more.Working from a deep love of nature and a disdain for colonial superiority, Joan Ross is an artist whose daringly honest approach to the legacy of colonialism in Australia penetrates the armour and/or camouflage of contemporary society’s fine-washing of Australia’s past, present and future.
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Vipoo Srivilasa
Find out more.A Thai-born Australian artist recognised as a leader in the field of ceramics, Vipoo Srivilasa creates work that engages with complex questions of queerness, migration and spiritual meaning, using an aesthetic and medium that is accessible, uplifting and beautiful.
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Louise Zhang
Find out more.Louise Zhang is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the fluidity of identity, weaving together cultural narratives, and aesthetics. Drawing inspiration from mythology and botany, Louise weaves together symbols and motifs into compositions that balance harmony with dissonance.
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Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin
Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin is a senior Pitjantjatjara artist committed to passing on her cultural knowledge to the next generation of Anangu.Tuppy continues to share stories through inma (dance and song) and storytelling with the next generation in her art and community leadership.
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Umatji Tjapalyi
Umatji paints her mother’s country around Iltur, which forms part of the Antara storyline. Umatji spent many years working with land management on mapping country, identifying plants and important sites all the way to the far west around Kanpi and Nyapari.
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Fire promises many things. From the first signs of smoke, a stray wisp carries an acute warning of danger. Fire lines that blindly march through tree filled valleys leave trails of destruction, summers of grey skies, and red suns. And yet, through this consumption – fire welcomes into the space it leaves behind, room for essential change. Just as First Nations Australians have for millennia encouraged bush regrowth through controlled burning, fire is essential to serotinous pods and the clearing of dense underbrush, maintaining the environment and everything that lives from it. Simultaneously, smoke (ever the reliable messenger), has been employed by many cultures to send messages across distances of mountains, water, and even into the heavens.
Emerging from the hibernation of the colder seasons, Kindling explores this duality of fire: the destructive and the regenerative, celebrating the symbiotic necessity of both. Featuring works by Tom Blake, Casey Chen, Aidan Hartshorn, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, Savannah Jarvis, Thea Anamara Perkins, Joan Ross, Vipoo Srivilasa, Louise Zhang and artists from Mimili Arts Centre: Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin and Umatji Tjapalyi, fire is explored on both an aesthetic and conceptual level.
