Solo Show Inter-Vene: Re-En-Vision 2024
Paula Condon is a multidisciplinary artist working with a wide range of processes to respond to the production and control of knowledge within the Archive.
Her interest questions how Archives were negotiated historically and within the contemporary. These investigations reenvision the Archive to reveal and inform different ways of seeing and knowing.
Her anti-archival assemblages and installations seek to disrupt and counter the production processes embedded in the construction of the Archive. Underpinning these works are philosophical investigations relating to Absence/Presence, Imprint and the Trace. Her works reuse a vast array of everyday objects and materials often domestic in nature such as cardboard, tape, foam, wax, wallpaper, fabric, tiles, bricks, and furniture. These objects and materials are recontextulised and embedded within the architecture of the sites of her works, fracturing and reframing the space. Her most recent body of work "An Untitled Anarchival Architecture of my Body: WIP," October 2023 combined assemblage, video, performance, animation and collage, in an installation exemplary of these ongoing investigations.
50 Shades of Life Exhibition
50 Shades of Life explores the monochrome world through the individual artworks of sixteen peer-group artists.The term monochrome stems from Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos) "one', and χρῶμα (khrôma) "colour' and is the single presentation of one colour in different shades or hues. Kazimir Malevich' "Black Square' (1915) is thought to be the first example of a monochromatic painting. Other mediums such as photography continue to value the impact that monochrome imbues upon chosen subjects.
Each artist explores the unique communicative opportunities that a reduced palette brings with a new direction of inquiry. Marshall McLuhan's notion that "the medium is the message' is reflected in the insight each artist offers. Monochrome is often thought of as only black and white but as you will see in 50 Shades of Life there is a whole lot more to single-colour art.
Exhibition conceived and curated by 3P Collective: Robyn Wood, Neil Moorhead, and Matt Hurdle.
50 Shades of Life: Artist Statement – Paula Condon
Paula Condon is currently studying for a Bachelor of Fine Arts focusing on drawing and painting practices. Paula’s art explores figurative forms and narratives which often stem from emotions and recalled memories.
Through the theme of monochrome Paula creates simplified figurative line drawings which emerge from the gradual layering of black ink washes. By stripping away colour and focusing on building tone these monochrome drawings highlight the power of the simplicity of form and connect with the feelings of isolation experienced by many over the past two years during the pandemic. Significantly both frames are disrupted with the addition of torn tissue paper.