Linden - Centre for Contemporary Arts: A Secret Life of Plants

Exhibitions
2009 Exhibition Program
Innovators 1 Exhibitions

INNOVATORS 1 EXHIBITIONS

23 May - 21 June 2009
Opening 6pm Friday 22 May

Gallery 1 Pretty in Pink
Natalie Ryan
Pale pink, flocked and prized. This installation explores the concept of the taxidermy trophy as an object associated with triumph, a physical item displayed to remind the owner and their peers of his/her achievement. In the case of the animal cadaver as a trophy, it is the achievement of the kill, the power of taking ownership over another being, which is esteemed. The dead body becomes a trophy for permanent display through the process of taxidermy. Natalie is a Linden studio artist.

Gallery 2 R.I.P - an art ghost story
Michael Vale
Michael Vale presents the post-mortem work of little known Melbourne painter Robert Inglewood Pirrie who was killed by a horse in 1897. At a series of seances held after his death, his widow Alicia was able to reproduce his visions from the other side through paintings, collages and drawings - in the process anticipating many aspects of the future and beyond...

Gallery 3 The Sanguine Spectre
Mila Faranov
Have you ever felt you're not alone? Shiny, translucent, cut plastic patterns, are draped and pulled from the gallery walls; issuing from and intertwining with painted figures, creating a sense of presence beyond mere decoration.

Gallery 4 Romy
Gabrielle Baker
In this installation a pack of teenagers and their domestic pets roam around, both inside and outside a house. They circle one young woman, resting on a windowsill, half of her body inside the house and the other half outside. The teenagers' physicality, like the animals, is both knowing and entrancing.

Gallery 5 Untitled
Antonia Goodfellow (winner of the Linden Award at the 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival)
The work takes for its referent, the tetrahedral symmetry of the water molecule. An imaginary structure suggests a hypothetical network of water molecules. Travelling through matter, uncovering its particle behaviour at the quantum level, we can begin to think of our existence in the physical universe as infinite or perhaps infinitesimal.

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Gabrielle Baker

Mila Faranov

Antonia Goodfellow

Natalie Ryan

Michael Vale