Praxis Artspace, 2019

Catalogue + Essay by Julia Robinson

Bodies at Rest, oil copper, 900x900mm, 2019

Sirius A, oil on copper, 600x600mm, 2019

Sirius B, oil on copper, 600x600mm, 2019

Self Portrait as Someone of Note, oil on copper, rope, 900x700mm, 2019

Alone with nothing but my thoughts, three oranges and a pineapple, oil on copper, 900x700mm, 2019

The Inland Sea installation view

As Far as the Ponies Will Take Us, oil on copper, 900x60mm, 2019

Oil on copper, 900x450mm, 2019

Tracks 1, oil on copper, 900x600mm, 2019

Tracks 2, oil on copper, 900x600mm, 2019

Tracks 3, oil on copper, 900x600mm, 2019

Tracks 1, 2 & 3 - installation view

Terrain, oil on copper, 150x150mm, 2019

The Terror, oil on copper, 200x300mm, 2019

What Have You Done? & Conquer, both oil on copper, 400x300mm, 2019 - installation view

Doldrums, oil on copper, 1800x900mm, 2019

Photography by James Field
Presented as part of the South Australian Living Artist Festival (SALA) 2019

A solo exhibition of oil paintings on copper exploring the fraught legacy and strange romance of doomed expeditions. From futile treks for imagined rewards to noble scientific endeavours beset by tragedy; the damned and the doomed endure in popular imagination.

What is sought?
What is taken?
What is lost?

Read a response to this show here:

https://www.adelaidereview.com.au/arts/visual-arts/2019/09/30/inner-and-outer-space-at-praxis-artspace/