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Interview on JOY FM Sunday Arts program (5 June 2022) for Sacellum and Gavin Brown’s After the Fire at fortyfivedownstairs
Promotional video for the Sacellum exhibition, June 2022 at fortyfivedownstairs.
Exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
Exhibition Runs Tuesday 7 June – Saturday 18 June 2022. Open night Friday 10 June, 6pm – 8pm
Tues to Fri: 12pm – 6pm, Sat: 12pm – 4pm, Tues & Fri evenings 6pm – 8pm
Previews by appointment chris@chrisorr.com.au
sacellum: a small chapel within a church, or a sanctuary dedicated to a deity
Sacellum is an infected confection of the sacred and technology. A melancholic wink at consumerism and spirituality. A dialogue between a certain past and an uncertain future.
The artist reclaims engravings of Renaissance images and layers them with a mélange of modern detritus – from aluminium cans to discarded laptop motherboards – scanned at ultra-high resolution to reveal surprising new views and hidden landscapes.
Technology is as omnipotent and omnipresent as religion once was, controlling what we see and feel, for better or worse. In the past, priests and preachers were the exclusive producers of cultural propaganda, but today this role is subsumed by the ubiquity of our devices and our connection to the internet.
Sacellum is a contemplation of this control of our hearts and minds; a moving patternation of the contemporary and the classical. The portals of belief continue to look over us, providing a glimmer of hope for what lies ahead.
After many Covid delays, the Banyule Works on Paper 2021 exhibition finally opened on 25 February 2022.
Image: Gethsemane (Garden of Tears), 2021, pigment inks on Moab cotton rag.
Chuffed to be shortlisted for the 2021 Geelong Acquisitive Print Award! Announcement here.
Image: ‘Miss Information’, (pigment inks on Moab cotton rag). A Covid conversation.
Street front art @melbournestyle_gallery in Clarendon St, Sth Melbourne for the week 13-20 March 2021, part of The Art Hunter’s “10 artists in 10 weeks”.
I was interviewed during lockdown by Stephen A Russell for a series in The Age on ‘Artists in the Time of COVID-19’.
Chuffed to be acquired by ACU Melbourne Gallery as part of their modern collection. It’ll be nice to be hung amongst such accomplished artists.
She’s still in production but it struck me how she is face masked and sealed in her isolation acid green acrylic box.
Motherboard Portal Verde, 2019
Making my own acrylic box frames for Linden postcard show. Cutting and gluing acrylic is an absolute bastardy challenge of precision and timing …and a snowstorm of acrylic dust.
This piece is Circuit Queen Rød
