Melissa McGrath

Here are some examples of past work by the artists participating in the exhibition:


Emma Buswell, Optional Touring Plinth/ mini-bar fridge, 2012
◫ Born in Perth, Emma Buswell graduated from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Arts in 2011 and Honours in 2012. Receiving an Emerging Artist Grant from the Constantine Family Foundation and Artsource in 2013, Emma opened up a temporary project and exhibition space - MaxART - in the Bankwest Tower, Perth. She has exhibited internationally and nationally and in 2011 was selected to attend the Advanced Course in Visual Arts in Lake Como, Italy. In 2012 Emma co-curated the exhibition Hypotheticals Part II at Free Range Gallery in Perth.


Mardi Crocker, Untitled, 2013
◫ Mardi Crocker graduated from Curtin University in 2013 with a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) and is currently completing her honours year. She has exhibited at Kurb, Moores Building, Curtin University and most recently City of Perth’s Light Locker Art Space. Through drawing and painting her work investigates notions of the everyday and the value of paying attention to the unnoticed. Treating often banal subject matter with a gentle, reverent touch she gives significance to the commonplace and encourages the viewer to consider their own everyday. Her work for Stay/Keep remains true to this ethos as the gentle gesture of palm-size drawings on paper are used to document and catalogue the small details of an everyday domestic space – the bathroom.


Anna Dunnil, Embroidery Study #3 (detail), 2013, embroidery thread & graphite on calico
◫ Anna Dunnill is an artist and writer working in Perth, Western Australia. Her practice investigates the nature of language, communication and isolation, with forms including drawing, text, installation, zines, tattoos and embroidery. Anna is a graduate of Central Institute of Technology and Curtin University, a co-director of Paper Mountain, and a contributing member of Aunty Mabel’s Zine Distro. She has exhibited in numerous group shows, including Hatched: 2009 at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; her first solo exhibition, Notes Toward A Universal Language, was held at Paper Mountain in July 2013. She also writes critical articles, catalogue essays, and creative pieces. Anna’s work has been published online in The Thousands, and in print in Art Monthly, Voiceworks, dotdotdash, the First Page Anthology, and the Cottonmouth Anthology, among others.


Laura Edmunds, Untitled (work in progress detail), 2013, drafting film, chalk, gesso, ink, pencil
◫ Laura Edmunds is a UK-born visual artist currently based in Perth, Western Australia. In 2011, she graduated with a BA (Hons) degree in Surface Pattern: Contemporary Applied Art from Swansea Metropolitan University, Wales. Receiving the 2012 Drawing Prize from the ‘Welsh Artist of the Year’ awards and the 2012 Jane Phillips Award from Mission Gallery, based in Swansea, Laura was able to continue her postgraduate studies in Australia, where she has just completed her Masters of Applied Design and Art from Curtin University. Laura’s work is preoccupied with exploring the possibilities of experimental drawing and the drawn mark. Concerned with drawings innate ability to communicate loss and an unspoken emptiness, she creates drawings that attempt to convey the disembodiment and elusive nature of existing as a human being. Her intentions for the drawings are to evoke an awareness of the physicality involved within the artwork.


Amy Hickman, Untitled, 2013
◫ Amy Hickman is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice blurs art, theory, and fiction in an attempt to make sense of the effects of networked and popular culture. Her most recent work is produced from methods of self-curation, reappropriation, re-assembling and distribution. These processes offer a renegotiation of the relationships between the digital and the physical; hypotheticals, fictions, and reality; and the tension between intensity and inertia.


Zoe Lutze, Untitled, 2013
◫ Zoe Lutze is a printmaker and sculptor from Perth. Her recent work draws from moments of intimacy exploring the difference between being intimate and smothered, through the use of materials with conflicting properties. Lutze is also interested in the relationship between print and sculpture. She manipulates traditional sculptural materials using processes that mimic traditional printmaking. She was part of the 2013 Curtin Art Degree Show at which she was the recipient of the Free Range Award - her first solo show will take place at Free Range Gallery, opening on the 9th of August 2014. She has undertaken a residency at Fremantle Arts Centre since April 2014.


Danni McGrath, Four-colour-separation zines, 2013
◫ Danni McGrath is interested in the production and distribution of art works. In order to focus on these elements, rather than the content of a work, McGrath works with other artists and their own material. Her current practice is based around providing a range of services to fellow artists with the aim of exploring possibilities of production and distribution. Recent services offered have included a printing service that produced posters, zines, books, business cards and t-shirts; and a fledgling internet radio station featuring hyper-local news. She is featured in the Hatched 2014 National Graduate show at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. She is currently completing her Honours degree in Fine Art at Curtin University.


Holly O'Meehan, Untitled, 2013
◫ Holly O’Meehan is a Perth based visual artist whose work explores ideas of obsessive control and structure, constantly fixating on the physical order of objects with in her immediate environments. Her work jumps between the de-construction and re-construction of both pre-organised and chaotic scenes, using methods of installation, performance, film, drawing and paper manipulation to portray these processes. Holly has just completed her BA in Fine Art and Art Design at Curtin University. Since graduating she has spent the following months at the Fremantle Arts Centre as an artist in residence, building a body of work for an upcoming solo exhibition at Kurb Gallery, Perth opening on June 14, 2014.


Amy Perejuan-Capone, Superflat Picnic Kit, 2013, jarrah, pine, leather, cotton, aluminium, PLA plastic (3D print)
◫ Indistinguishable from a pig but for her dorsal fin, this Fish (also known as Amy Perejuan-Capone) has inhabited the more south-westerly strata of the water column since 1987. She creates furniture and art, despite this being deemed wholly inappropriate behaviour for a working-class Pig-Fish, and graduated with a Bachelor of Porcine Studies from the University of Decorative Drapes in 2009. Pig-Fish's practice centres on the pursuit of the reverie that accompanies a truly good idea. By investigating diverse materials such as kangaroo hide, tree-flesh, and quietude, Pig-Fish's work seeks to evoke a sense of useful absurdity (and shoots a hard-wink at foxy old archetypes). Pig-Fish does not have a Five Year Plan, but based on the previous Five Years (which saw her travelling to Iceland a lot) she will probably design an inter-continental train network linking Australia to Northern Europe via a system of vacuum tubes and geothermal hot tubs, continue to dislike Summer, and develop a new spoken language using a base unit of φ


Emma Schrader, Untitled, 2013
◫ For Emma Schrader, being an Honours student means spending a lot of time in the sculpture studio at uni, trying to make things. The objects Emma makes are a result of precise, physical engagement with plaster, wood, metal, fabric and paper. If Emma's objects spark curiosity about how they have been made, this could be because the work exists as neither traditional printmaking or sculpture. Emma tries to find unfamiliar ways to combine the two, and then arranges the objects in specific relationships with one another. If Emma was not studying Honours this year, she guesses that she would be spending a lot more time knitting.