GALLERY TWO | PATTIE BEERENS & GRETEL SHARP
TWO GATHER
OPENS FRI MAR 26, 6:00PM - 8:00PM
CLOSES FRI APR 30, 5:00PM
FREE
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Platform presents Two Gather, a durational installation by performer and LAB artist Gretel Sharp and environmental crafter Pattie Beerens.
“There’s a mystical power to this earth, beneath our feet, overhead - stretching out in all directions. However, somewhere along the way, our culture has forgotten that we too exist as part of this wider eco-system, not simply as observers or consumers.
The artwork intertwines the gatherings of people, materials and places across time, creating lively entanglements of earthly matter, homage to the wider ecological web of which we are part. Ageless practices such as clay shaping, string weaving, nature findings, crystallization and community engagement build the piece, musing upon a humanity that relates beyond time. “ (Gretel Sharp & Pattie Beerens)
Two Gather will grow and change over the course of the exhibition as the artists nurture the aliveness of time & earthly matter.
Full Moon Gatherings will be held on Monday 29th March and Tuesday 27th April, where viewers are invited to gather, create and reflect on the cycles we exist within and the threads that bind us to the earth and each other.
Join us for the opening of this exhibition on March 26, from 6PM-8PM in Gallery 2. Exhibition runs until April 30.
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Gretel Sharp is an emerging artist inspired by the natural world, mythical folklore & human absurdity. With an extensive background in acting, her work ranges across mediums such as performance, devised theatre-making, writing, film and visual storytelling, all with a distinctively surreal and quirky flavour.
Recent credits include starring in Love of The Nightingale at Theatreworks 2021 and a residency as part of the latest LAB program at Platform Arts. She also facilitates spaces and circles for women to connect to their innate wisdom.
Pattie Beerens is an intuitive weaver who ponders on material thinking as an ethos of inhabiting place. Drawing on a decade of contemplative ceramics practice, and her nature girl spirit, she gathers and relates with natural materials and primordial clay, to form immersive, whimsical, mattering environments of living, sensing and relating as part of nature.
Recent performances of visual-crafting were witnessed at stories so far (2020) in the Dirty Dozen Windows of Campbell Arcade Melbourne, am I listening (2020) in the vitrines at Assembly Point, Southbank (both on the land of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri peoples) and mattering moonahs (2020) in the Moonah Woodland at Point Roadknight beach, Anglesea Victoria (on Wadawurrung land).
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See more of Gretel’s work here
See more of Pattie’s work here
See Gretel’s Instagram here
See Pattie’s Instagram here
