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Katie Barber : Curator

Katie Barber is an Adelaide-based visual artist and curator. Katie is a founding member of the TwoPercent Collective and has co-directed the Artist-Run Initiative from 2007 to present. Katie graduated a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours from the South Australia School of Art in 2010. Currently holding the postion of curator for Australian Experimental Art Foundation's Odradek Project Space, Katie is also dedicated to her professional practice, exhibiting regularly in solo and group exhibitions with local Artist-Run Initiatives.

 

 

Timothy Hodge : An Ancient Burial


Katie Barber : Curator

timothy hodge

 

Artist's Statement

“These pieces attempt to combat a flatness of vision through allusions of depth and new visual spaces. Ultimately, they question our modes of vision. Good art has always done this, but now more than ever I think it must wear its consciousness like a kind of vision-permeable skin. Before the gaze of a viewer stabilizes a piece of work into something solid, there is a fluid imaginary space. This is the space of the shaman, a kind of permeability between worlds of matter and spirit, beyond methods of rational understanding. We collectively need to draw more from such ancient spaces as we form our minds, to compose spaces like these that feel boundless, and re-synthesize our treatment of our surroundings. This work accesses a time where primal spirituality recognized the animals as spirits, and the trees as luminous beings, connecting us to the earth - the inner to the outer - through ideas mostly absent in western culture.

Waste was an essential medium in these pieces – plastics, foam and polystyrene, were used alongside ancient geological formations such as malachite and quartz, both said to be cleansers of the third-eye and able to assist with moving between inner and outer worlds. I think a lack of inner vision, otherness and interconnection permits destruction in our part of the world because it leaves only a limited sense of self. It involves man seeing only “through narrow chinks of his cavern” (Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell) losing sight of the his infinity and the infinity of the world, and his responsibility within it.”
Timothy Hodge, 2012

Bio

Timothy Hodge is an inter-disciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, projection and sound art. The gradual process is one of melting categories so that a sculpture is equally a painting, and the indwelling mutuality of sound and visuals can breathe properly in the viewers mind. This is done in the belief that otherness is induced by intense art experience, enhancing our understanding of the less apparent. Timothy also plays in bands that are insisting like lava to get louder, lower and nasty in a holy kind of way.