Osmosis 2010

Exhibition in Long Gallery

The Osmosis artists are engaging with many aspects of their encounters with Queenstown, from memories and history, industrial success and disaster, cultural identity and conflict. The exhibition promises a diversity of responses as well a range of technical methods such as painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography to express the experience of fusion with the concept of location.

As a group of female emerging and mid career artists engaging with location through research, the resulting works reflect the diversity of experiences encountered within the definition of the township. Resting in the basin of steep ranges that surround the settlement in dramatic style, the town itself expresses the hardship of its location as the relentless weather seeps into the structures in a slow and insidious way, or tears away at its fabric in violent bursts. Built around the development of the Lyell mine, the town continues to survive and braces itself for the next recession or natural incursion. The mountains that define its parameter, once denuded of all vegetation are returning to their naturally forested state. The dense wet sclerophyll forests that thrive beyond the ridges of the township entice exploration and awe, but harbour the menace of fire, a wild force that threatens human settlement.

Opening Hours: Tuesday 19 - Tuesday 26 October 2010
Gallery Opening Hours TBA

Key Artists: Kaye Green, Leonie Oakes, Gabrielle Falconer, Fiona Fraser, Yvonne Rees Pagh, Janelle Mendham, Diane Foster, Lee Vanderslink, Deborah Asmather, Erin Tappe, Margot Welsh, Lotte Kronbor, Sue MacGregor and Linden Langdon.

Venue: Long Gallery

Website: http://osmosisartists.com/