GALLERY TWO | HOLLY GOODRIDGE & SHAN DANTE
ORCHIDACEAE PORTA
SAT 07 OCT 4.00PM - FRI 03 NOV 5.00PM
OPENING EVENT SAT 07 OCT, 4.00-6.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
-
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
-
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.
Orchidaceae porta is a creative partnership between Holly Goodridge and Shan Dante, combining queer theory and expanded painting to challenge societal norms and create a new sense of reality.
Using various art forms such as performance, sculpture, painting, and sound, the collective expands within an immersive gallery experience. By highlighting the connection between the audience and the artwork, the work remains critical of traditional ideas about gender and neurodiversity. Goodridge and Dante aim to convey the feeling of being "different" that marginalised artists often experience by moving away from the established norms set within limited parameters.
The orchid is the conceptual and visual symbol of the artist's inner and exterior self. It represents the queer self as a spectacle of the exterior merged with multifaceted characteristics within survival, beauty, and death. Orchids, much like the queer body, ebbs and flows shapes, colours, and environments, subverting conventional binary notions of what is understood. By utilising survival techniques, these queer entities demonstrate resilience and adaptability, navigating a geography alien to them.
Orchidaceae porta is a bud of exploration, facilitating discussions and encouraging its viewers to reflect on their adaptability and growth within the boundaries of normative society.
For sales and enquiries, please contact curator@platformarts.org.au.
-
Holly Goodridge and Shan Dante met through their Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours course and soon became fast friends. Realising they worked in similar ideas of ‘otherness’ and deconstruction of the gallery space they decided to begin an artist collaboration. In 2022 they were awarded a Residency Program for RMIT Situate giving them a physical space to merge their painting and performance practises together. They have shown at Sandbox Studios, Miscellenia, Ladder Art Space and at First Site. They now share a space at Hawthorn Arts Centre and contine to work together creating work critical of traditional ideas about gender and neurodiversity.
