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Enter The Paper Attic
Thursday August 04 2011
Benja Harney’s Paper Creations
We are very lucky to be able to bring you an incredible show currently showing in Object’s Project Space. In connection with Sydney Design Week, Benja Harney, a well known and highly respected paper artist, brings to life objects that one might find in their attic. You will find an old wooden rocking horse, much loved ice skates, a discarded umbrella, piles of dusty books and even a mouse hole in the wall, all of which is intricately made out of paper. This exhibition allows viewers to marvel at Benja’s incredible talents for all things paper and reflect on their own personal hidden treasures they might have tucked away in the attic or under the stairs.
These objects have a certain nostalgia about then in their uncanny realistic nature. It feels almost as if you have stumbled upon them in their uncanny realistic nature. It feels almost as if you have stumbled upon hidden away treasures that bring back childhood memories.
Underfoot Overhead
Tuesday May 03 2011
Now Showing in the Project Space
Five Australian makers have come together in Object’s Project Space to showcase work that is evocative, unexpected and yet familiar. Each artist embraces the opposing forces inherent in the natural world: of degradation and transformation; healing and death; sublime beauty and harsh reality. These makers inhabit a strange space…
Michelle Kelly’s striking installation Basidiomycota, 2007-2011, engages us in the regularly overlooked ‘Fifth Kingdom’ of fungi. By magnifying these forms, the artist gives us a rare and intimate experience of the organisms that contribute to significantly yet thanklessly to the working order of the earth. The work, pictured, really needs to be seen in its entirety, occupying the gallery wall. As Kelly’s practice centres around architectural works both for space and also for the body, to coincide with this exhibition Collect has brought in a range of Michelle Kelly’s gloriously crafted, organic jewellery for a limited time – definitely not to be missed!
Visiting Object
St. Margarets, 417 Bourke St
Surry Hills NSW 2010
Tuesday-Friday: 11am-5pm
Saturday: 10am-5pm
Free admission
+61 2 9361 4511
gallery@object.com.au
