Ground Bearing

Curated by Corinna Howell

November 27 - December 11 2020

Tim Coad

George Kennedy

Adrian Bradbury

Corinna Howell

Alexander Beech

 Ground Bearing showcases 5 of Hobart’s most talented emerging artists and art graduates – between them, already racking up a lengthy list of art awards and finalist selections.

 The collection of works explore and represent various themes and locations of this Island. With some of the artists’ past and current conceptual themes focusing strongly on experience and immersion of a particular place, our shared ideas follow our physical journeys through our curiosities with specific places and spaces in Tasmania

 Showcasing works in paint, print and drawing sticks, the artists find their own means of reimagining a place or creating directly within the environment. Each artist is distinct in their interpretation of how their locale presents them with new meaning, inspiration or observations. The artists find themselves attempting to recapture, redefine, retain and reimagine places and spaces that they visit in their daily and working lives - these places are historic, suburban, geological, and present-day. By looking at the varying viewpoints of this Island through the lens of their perspectives, the scope of this landscape is rendered boundless and ground bearing.

 In Ground Bearing we see mountain and bush scapes, geological trails, historical roots, disquiet suburban landscapes and familiar landmarks, bringing together the diverse and compelling elements of our surroundings. 

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Artist’s Statements

GEORGE KENNEDY

Marks and lines weave layers around one another, interacting with, and obscuring those beneath them. Organic and inorganic shapes take form. Fiercely passionate about the expressive nature allowed by drawing, my works are informed by a long process of exploring Tasmanian places through sketching. Multitudes of drawings are later used as reference material, offering an extension to my memory of place. Final works aim to create a likeness beyond the visual; an essence of place, or a feeling. Focussing on local landscape and history, my aim is to understand where things go when they are erased, through works that showcase humanity’s intricate relationship with the earth and the layered narratives our marks leave behind.

TIM COAD

The works I have exhibited in 'Ground Bearing' explore the expanded condition of contemporary place based drawing and printmaking. The selection of works are from a recent project titled 'Fourfoot Rd.' which explores the bushfire affected environment on the outskirts of Geeveston, Tasmania. These works were drawn with an angle grinder, on location in the bush, on large aluminium sheets. 

The bush on the outskirts of Geeveston, is an accumulative and transitory dumping ground - machinery and engine tubes spill from the ground resembling bodies and organs, while simultaneously mimicking the fallen trees. Tracing the impacts of civilisation in the local environment, my work explores the collision between the forgotten place, the constructed landscape, and the narratives that emerge when one is framed within the other. When the landscape is damaged, dug up, and stripped away, we are not simply met with nature, we are again met with civilisation, and a reminder of our own transience.