Image: courtesy of Rosie Stanton & Lilly Skipper.
INTERVENTION | ROSIE STANTON & LILLY SKIPPER
DISOBEDIENT ACCUMULATIONS
MON 22 MAY 9.00AM - FRI 30 JUN 5.00PM
OPENING EVENT SAT 03 JUN, 4.00-6.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday closed
Sunday closed
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
Please note, Platform Arts is a dry venue.
Rosie and Lilly create and cross boundaries to find the in-accessibilities that surround us in our daily lives. Through physical and conceptual disruptions and deconstruction, they highlight the restrictions, confusions, and ambiguities of experiencing life and place.
These ambiguities are further investigated in the search for genuine worth and experience. By placing arbitrary value on trinkets and objects, they explore the true worth of these things and the myth of Truth in experience, place, and love.
The idea of value and worth is pushed by playful accumulations. Building up a storage of ideas, games, words, things; to hoard a wealth of worthless things in order to dwell in a sea of ironic treasures. These treasures which are lost and found or thrown away and recovered, perhaps even destroyed and pieced back together again. Whose trash is whose treasure?
Reality is convoluted, a spatial understanding is futile, and truth is lost...
But all in good fun.
For enquiries, please contact curator@platformarts.org.au.
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Rosie Stanton is a Melbourne-based artist and recent VCA Fine Arts graduate. She works across different media, often in ink, ranging from drawing to writing from the comfort of her makeshift-bedroom-studio.
Lilly Skipper (she/her) is a mixed-media installation and performance artist currently studying her Honours in Visual Arts at Monash University and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the VCA.
Lilly’s practice revolves around a cycle of encounter, intervention and exchange. Works suggest a series of intuitive decisions, embracing common materials in a process dependent on convenience and accessibility to materials. Her impulsive ‘spurs’ negotiate creative notions of care or a careless-ness or de-skilling in the artmaking process. Lilly’s objects tease an implied movement, suggesting bodily intervention with materials in constant flux, recognizing objects associated with maintenance work and transcending their functions. Materials undertake actions of unmaking and reconstructing as processes of subtraction, whilst retaining or dismissing the object's connection to and agency within its previous context. The artist challenges what it is to exhaust a material’s possibilities, considering why specific materials hold attention. Her installations trouble a near delineation between private and public space.
