Images from upcoming exhibition by Chris Kerruish and Stephanie Parkyn...

With contrasting styles and mediums, past member Chris Kerruish and Inka Member Stephanie Parkyn, bring their individual interpretations to their upcoming combined exhibition, 'the empty chair'.

The stories behind these beautiful artworks create the mood for this unique exhibition which starts this Thursday, 11th October.

 

    untitled       
     70cm x 100cm    
$250

Artist Statement - Chris Kerruish

The Bentwood Chair was first produced in 1859.  Over the past 150 years it has come to represent the modernist values of ‘economy, durability and humbleness’.  As we move more quickly into the 21st Century, our hunger for money is reaching crisis point and we are leaving these values behind.  I have used the chair as a metaphor for a society that is crumbling.

Beginning with photographing the decoration on the chair, I then became interested in the chair itself.  Dissecting the image and putting it back together, David Hockney style, I found that this altering of perspective, suggested the subjective way western society views itself. The method of photo-transfer lends a faded disintegrative quality of time and memory.

In an attempt for the work to become more powerful, I have produced the images on a larger scale. The blown up and photo transferred images of the chair have become fractured and disintegrated. In some places, fading away altogether, representing a disappearing society and the loss of a way of life.

 

photo-transfer drawings
$250 (unframed)



 

untitled
70cm x 100cm
$250



untitled
70cm x 100cm
$250

detail

detail

Artist Statement - Stephanie Parkyn

Cultural narrative – or what the stuff we leave on our porch says about us. An empty chair can be a nostalgic reminder of the passing of time and people.

It can evoke sadness and loneliness or peace and tranquillity.   We can imbue it with character and personality and see ourselves in its embrace.

The empty chair invites speculation.

 

pastels

$290 - $950 (framed)

  

     Waiting      
                  72cm x 98cm            $950





          Missing         
                          39cm x 56cm                  $290 
sold
     



   Resting  
                    40cm x 50cm             $320
sold





 Watching   
                 72cm x 98cm            $950

The exhibition runs from Thursday, 11th - 31st October 2012.

We are happy to pack and send if you see something you like! 

e.  info@inkagallery.org.au   t. 03 6223 3663

Gallery hours:  Mon-Sat 10 - 5     Sun 11.30 - 3