Spectrum:
Group Exhibition

Exhibition Runs: 8 - 11 July (open by appt from 12 - 16 July)

Opening Night: 8 July / 5-9pm

Address: 69 Dover St, Cremorne

 Included Artists:

Tom Adair
Richard Blackwell
Dion Horstmans
Adam Cullen
Kane Alexander
Fabrizio Biviano
Giclee Studios
Karl Gordon
Tom Gerrard
Nellie Peoples
Andrei Davidoff
Jack Flash
Mark Chu
Paul Spirli
Stephen Carlier
Julius Killerby
Studio Ciao
Laelie Berzon

Spectrum brings together 18 Australian artists as the first of a series of explorative shows from Thought Forms, curated by Tom Adair. Light, light conditions, and light effects bring together this stylistically diverse collection, reimagining light through material, context, and experience. Fictional depictions of light echo physical constructions, while the display context imposes conditions of luminance that encourage movement intrinsic to the theme. Bright colours abound, exploring a vital artistic instinct, the curation of electromagnetic wavelengths for effect—in simple words, colour choice. An unexpected thread of home emerges.

The works of Karl Gordon and Jack Flash meditate on light as object. Gordon’s wall-mounted sculptures reflect his technical history as a neon fabricator, elevated into idealized schematic forms inspired by Picabia, whereas Jack Flash’s retro television simulates signal loss, communicating miscommunication. Tom Adair’s architectural installation houses three distorted paintings of celebrities in a domestic wood-frame, employing pink neon to dramatize the context of celebrity. Solid plasterer Stephen Carlier brings beauty to construction labour with single-hued plasterworks that evoke contact, while Studio Ciao repurposes defunct extractor fans as pot plants, shedding light on environmental loads. Central to the show, Kane Alexander’s abstract sculpture suspends three mirrored triangular prisms, fragile batons intended as human figures, refracting and reflecting their surrounds.

Richard Blackwell’s wall-mounted sculpture asserts the rhythmic geometries of light, as Dion Horstmans’ steel prisms extrude this concept into three dimensions, inviting interpretation from many points of view. The familiar stainless steel wireforms of Nellie Peoples extract geometry from the home, encouraging viewers to see by looking through, whereas Andrei Davidoff’s terracotta slip and engobe vase implies illumination through surface motif, resisting its intrinsic solidity.

Through photography and painting, Giclee Studios and Fabrizio Siviano mutually affirm the sublime qualities of sunset hues. Similar faded pastels comment on decor and design in Tom Gerrard’s oversize interior plant works. Dramatic insistence arrives via Laelie Berzon’s generously applied paintings, where gemlike nuggets concentrate emotion through deep saturation. Portraits from Julius Killerby are driven by the emotive urgency of shadow, where Adam Cullen uses acid hues to sharpen the bite of his humorous affect. Mark Chu’s bathroom nude evokes intimacy from the private, while Paul Spirli’s postmodern still life yanks the personal from the public.

- Words by Mark Chu

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