Backburning

Opening 6pm Friday 4 October Featuring work by Julia Boyd, Jacqueline Bradley, Chris Carmody, Karena Keys, Trish Roan, Adam Veikkanen & Fiona Veikkanen Curated by Annika Harding We hope you can join us for the opening of Backburning. Exhibition continues until Saturday the 9th of November.  Backburning looks back at CCAS’ Blaze ACT Emerging Artist Showcase exhibitions over the past seven years. Blaze has featured over forty-five of the ACT’s most exciting and innovative emerging artists. Instead of cramming work by all of them into the gallery, curator Annika Harding has focused on a select group of former Blaze artists who use everyday materials to create astonishing and enlightening work. These artists – Julia Boyd, Jacqueline Bradley, Chris Carmody, Karena Keys, Trish Roan, Adam Veikkanen and Fiona Veikkanen – make fascinating observations about how we perceive materials and challenge how we see the world around us. Their very unconventional works show how easy it can be to find the infinite in the ordinary.

Ya Big Softy- installation view

 Ya Big Softy. 2013. Vinyl, fabric, wire, foam, thread. 73x174x174cm. 

A few installation shots of Ya Big Softy from the exhibition Momentum at Belconnen Art Centre from earlier in the year.