Tom Nicholson in Erased, Asialink and AGNSW
22 Apr 2009
Tom Nicholson exhibits Flags for a Trades Hall Council in Erased, an exhibition for Asialink and AGNSW. The exhibition opens in Singapore 20 July 2009. It will tour Asia and return to AGNSW in 2010.
ERASED
July 2009 - December 2010
Christian Capurro
Simryn Gill
Jonathan Jones
Tom Nicholson
Raquel Ormella
Among other synonyms “to draw” is to represent, sketch, portray, illustrate or depict ‘something’. This traditional and historical definition of drawing implies a means unto an end. Erased includes examples of this approach but the exhibition’s aim is to expand such understandings to include erasure or removal, arguably also an inherent albeit silent part of the creative methodology of drawing.
Each artist’s work is socially engaged – from environmental awareness, industrial relations and nationalism to more subtle statements about image-making in culture. And so a rubber, corrective fluid, sandpaper, texta and embossing instruments make marks that are either subsumed within a larger paradigm of conceptual investigation or are the very basis of an idea. Each artist has been chosen because within their ongoing practices they make work that creates a space for politics, stemming from a sense of transformation or loss.
Curated by Natasha Bullock
ERASED
July 2009 - December 2010
Christian Capurro
Simryn Gill
Jonathan Jones
Tom Nicholson
Raquel Ormella
Among other synonyms “to draw” is to represent, sketch, portray, illustrate or depict ‘something’. This traditional and historical definition of drawing implies a means unto an end. Erased includes examples of this approach but the exhibition’s aim is to expand such understandings to include erasure or removal, arguably also an inherent albeit silent part of the creative methodology of drawing.
Each artist’s work is socially engaged – from environmental awareness, industrial relations and nationalism to more subtle statements about image-making in culture. And so a rubber, corrective fluid, sandpaper, texta and embossing instruments make marks that are either subsumed within a larger paradigm of conceptual investigation or are the very basis of an idea. Each artist has been chosen because within their ongoing practices they make work that creates a space for politics, stemming from a sense of transformation or loss.
Curated by Natasha Bullock
