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TOUCHING SPACE // COX GALLERY
[05 MAY - 13 JUNE]
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TOUCHING SPACE
05 MAY - 13 JUNE
[2025]
COX ARCHITECTURE, CANBERRA
Touching Space is an exhibition of works in glass and drawing that study how the body encounters, interacts with and understands space and form. I continually contemplate how these experiences, though often transient, are embedded in bodily memory, and how to foster a connection between something as intangible as memory and something as physical as material.
The works in glass suggest how glass is like a skin. The surfaces frame the interplay of light and shadow in sculptural form to delineate how the body can be a mold for space, “to make visible how the world touches us”. The works create a dialogue between form and skin that present a set of sensory and material dichotomies, between tactility and intangibility, lightness and weight, moment and memory, movement and stillness, the familiar and the alien.
The works on paper explore a different sense of space, time and bodily interaction. The act of drawing repetitive lines denotes how the process of encountering space is one that unfolds over time, and articulates the nuances and subtle, transformative qualities of light, shadow: palpitating, shimmering, shifting. Space is often expansive and encompassing, however, these works frame a sense of intimacy and invite closeness and stillness.
Installation images: Brenton McGeachie
Echoes (through my skin) [2025]. Kiln formed glass. 495 x 400 each (1200 x 1470 mm installed).
Nights [2025]. Kiln formed glass. 220 x 400 each (500 x 400 mm installed).
(Left) Threshold [2025]. Pen on rice paper. 300 x 400 mm. (Right) Intercept, interject. [2025]. Pen on rice paper. 300 x 400 mm.
05 MAY - 13 JUNE
[2025]
COX ARCHITECTURE, CANBERRA
Touching Space is an exhibition of works in glass and drawing that study how the body encounters, interacts with and understands space and form. I continually contemplate how these experiences, though often transient, are embedded in bodily memory, and how to foster a connection between something as intangible as memory and something as physical as material.
The works in glass suggest how glass is like a skin. The surfaces frame the interplay of light and shadow in sculptural form to delineate how the body can be a mold for space, “to make visible how the world touches us”. The works create a dialogue between form and skin that present a set of sensory and material dichotomies, between tactility and intangibility, lightness and weight, moment and memory, movement and stillness, the familiar and the alien.
The works on paper explore a different sense of space, time and bodily interaction. The act of drawing repetitive lines denotes how the process of encountering space is one that unfolds over time, and articulates the nuances and subtle, transformative qualities of light, shadow: palpitating, shimmering, shifting. Space is often expansive and encompassing, however, these works frame a sense of intimacy and invite closeness and stillness.
Installation images: Brenton McGeachie