Remainder: Domestic Skins
Graduation Exhibition 2024, River Studio, Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University Southbank Campus, Brisbane Queensland.
Paula Condon
“Before my eyes the innards of my home were on the outside and the outside was on the inside, the order of the space that divides them, the infra-thin, had been torn.”
These assemblages are underpinned by the memory of my family home being demolished and explore the body and architecture as memory sites. Constructed mounds of accumulated materials including architectural structures, bodily constructions and domestic furnishings, are contrasted with fragile trace casts and imprints from the domestic space. This work is informed by an interest in how we collect, sort and store memories. Central to these investigations are processes of mapping, trace and imprint creating a visual language which oscillates between revealing and concealing, construction and extraction.
Photographs: Robyn Wood Images. Installation View: Domestic Spaces, River Studio, Queensland College of Art and Design, Southbank, Brisbane.
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 re-envision 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 recontextualised and embedded within the architecture of the sites of her works, fracturing and reframing the space.
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Inter-Vene: Re-En-Vision, Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art and Design at Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View: Chair Skins Series: Chair Skin I, Chair Skin II, Chair Skin III: 3 Chairs, Latex, Performance Shower Drawing: Looped Video, Performance Goggly Eye Looped Video.
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View: Wall Detail
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View: Bathroom Tiles, 999 grey + 1 red handmade Paper Clay Tile.
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images Installation View: Stair Skin, Clear tape imprint of staircase.
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View: Many skins, material process wall.
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Detail: Chair skin I
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Detail: Latex brick wall imprint.
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Detail: Many skins, material process wall.
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View.
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Detail: Wall Taping.
Chair Skins Series
In the process of working towards her first solo show Inter-Vene: Re-En-Vision Condon created the Chair Skin Series: Chair Skin I; Chair Skin II and Chair Skin III. “I was experimenting with the relationship between the caste and the mould, the shared point between, where each remains embedded in the other and how to represent the processes of trace and imprint as actual physical forms.”
Varying layers of latex were painted onto the chairs and then peeled back, each Chair Skin taking on its own form. “If I had to pick a favourite it would have to be Chair Skin II, as it brought to mind Joseph Bueys Iconic Fat Chair 1964.”
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View: Chair Skin I, Chair Skin II, Chair Skin III
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View: Chair Skin I, Chair Skin II, Chair Skin III
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View: Chair Skin I
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View: Chair Skin I
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View: Chair Skin II (Sunburn)
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View: Chair Skin III (Blister)
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Detail: Chair Skin I
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Detail: Chair Skin I
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images, Installation View: Chair Skin III (Blister)
50 Shades of Life Exhibition 2022
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.
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images Installation View: Untitled, Ink wash on board, tissue paper.
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images Untitled, Ink wash on board, tissue paper.
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images Untitled, Ink wash on board, tissue paper.
Photograph: Robyn Wood Images Detail: Untitled, Ink wash on board, tissue paper.