Tactile Imagination: Design Research Processes
- When 24 May - 30 Jun 2007
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Where
IVAN DOUGHERTY GALLERY
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Address
SELWYN ST, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
Tactile Imagination emerges from the cluster’s focus on practice-led research and captures a diversity of artworks ranging across sculpture, video, light installation, industrial products and textile art. The forms are variously ingenious, inspired, and inscrutable, ranging from the playful to the ethereal, but all are theorised through interplays of the visual and the textual. The concerns are mostly conceptual and propositional rather than explicitly functional. At first glance, while distant from the academic concerns of built environment research, they are in fact subtly constructive gestures deeply revealing of the creativity of practice.
Artists
Rina Berabei
Tom Loveday
Andrew Macklin
Bill MacMahon + Matthew Johnson
Ainslie Murray
Ann Quinlan + Oya Demirbilk
Xing Ruan
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Curated by Tom Loveday


Public Program:
Exhibition Talk
2pm, Thursday 7th June
Title Image: Rina Bernabei + Kelly Freeman Seams 007 installation of six powder coated, aluminium sheet lights and nine patterns of card and aluminum dimensions variable Photo: Dieu Tan
Banner Image: Ainslie Murray Fushimi Inari Walk (Kyoto) 2007 (detail) 70 x 70cm acrylic and monofilament line on canvas
Images: Installation view: 'Tactile Imagination', Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, 2007.