Image: Phoebe Thompson
GALLERY TWO | phoebe thompson
if it falls, it falls
SAT 18 MAR 4.00PM - TUES 11 APR 5.00PM
OPENING EVENT SAT 18 MAR, 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
*Please note, Platform Arts will be closed for Easter Holidays from 7-10 April.
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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.
“Walking on Country, looking for peace, instead I find rubbish—scraps of bright beautiful colours that humans created from the crushed bones of dinosaurs over millennia that now, birds weave into their nests and I collect to weave into mine.
As humans, we are wild and natural beings. We are also, however, entrapped and complicit in systems of civilisation, capitalism and consumerism — systems with dire consequences for the greater natural landscape and ecosystems of which we are part.
In creating art from almost entirely foraged, scavenged and found materials, I attempt to resist the capitalistic and materialistic urges that compel us, and lean towards simplicity. Being with nature as I collect rubbish is a reciprocal act of care towards myself and to Country.
I look around at the endless crap we have accumulated, the fuck-up we’ve made of the planet in a very short time—it’s absurd. Ridiculous. But deadly serious. You have to laugh - or you'll cry.
I’m asking you to pay attention to the destruction we have created, but also to the beautiful world that we live in. There is so much to wonder at and so much to pay attention to.”
For sales and enquiries, please contact curator@platformarts.org.au.
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Phoebe Thompson is an artist, curator, poet, and producer living on unceded Boon Wurrung land. Their multi-disciplinary practice is concerned with ecology and sustainability, personal identity, and the built and existing environment, whilst placing value on process, sentimentality, and connection.
In 2022, they graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT, and currently work at RMIT Creative as an Associate Creative Producer as well as working on Time To Waste Journal, a creative journal with a focus on environmentally and ecologically engaged works.
They were recently a finalist in the My Brother Jack Awards, and their work has been published in Voiceworks, Soft Quarterly, Interior Journal, Et Cetera, and others. They have presented artwork in collaboration with organisations such as SIGNAL, Midsumma, City of Melbourne, City of Greater Dandenong, RMIT University, Deakin University, Chisholm TAFE, CAST, and Connection Arts Space.
