‘i burnt a hole in my pocket to fix myself’
M16 Artspace, Canberra (Kambri Country), 25 March - 10 April 2022
Jesse Bowling (Aotearoa/New Zealand), Jack Caddy (AU), Grace Connors (AU), Anita Cummins (AU), Brooke Hyrons (AU/DE)
Curated by Matt Siddall
Documentation by David Paterson
Works included
Jesse Bowling, Crystallised Effort (2020-2022), photo on satin paper, video (00:56), sweat crystals, 3D filament rocks (various sizes).
Jack Caddy, New Purity (2016-2018), video (12:20), wall vinyl, banners.
Grace Connors, I went to a bikram yoga class and all I got was a pat on the back and a grande caramel soy latte (2017-2022), video (14:28), yoga mat.
Anita Cummins, Share the Softness (2022), left, and Someone Needs One (2022), right. tissue box, Printed images on cut paper, mattress string. 20.5 cm (w) x 19.5 cm (l) x 10cm (d).
Anita Cummins, Cortisol (2022), cut Kleenex Tissue box pieces, 337 cm (length) x 20.5 cm (width).
Brooke Hyrons, Growing Pains (2020), chiffon, recycled linen, found objects, 201 x 120 cm.
Artist Bios
Brooke Hyrons is an Australian interdisciplinary artist, currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. Hyrons adheres to historical craft principles whilst using coloured threads and fabrics to create intuitive and discrete forms on her portions of recycled and sustainable materials. Poetic and gestural, her work aims to emphasise notions of connection, intimacy, and emotion as viewers are drawn to closely examine the considered works for information and gestures.
The artist graduated from Monash University with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts and is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Art and Cultural Management at the University of Melbourne. She is also the co-curator and founder of Time to Waste, a new non-profit online creative journal focused on ecology and sustainability.
He uri ahau nō Ngāi Tahu me Kāti Māmoe, Ko Jesse Bowling Tōku ingoa.
Jesse Bowling is an artist based in Aotearoa, New Zealand that is interested in the future of self-care and its implications on mental stability entwined with the radical advancement of technology and capitalism. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons.) from Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand and an MFA (Masters of Fine Arts), Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne University.
Anita Cummins is a white, neurodivergent and queer visual artist and researcher living on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people in Naarm (Melbourne). In 2018 they received the Les Kossatz Memorial Award for their Honours graduate showcase. This led to their inclusion in the national graduate showcase Hatched at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, for which they were awarded the Schenberg Fellowship 2019. They are currently completing a Master of Fine Art by research at Monash University. In response to personal emotional, physical and psychic experiences, and the wider systems to which these experiences relate, their work aims to seek out and uncover alternative modes, methods and visualisations of radical coping, healing and recovery. They employ the use of arduous and repetitive methodologies as a mechanism for the processing and exploration of these complex states. Recent exhibition contributions include 4am flaming arrows, Bundoora Homestead, 2021, Stimulus Package, Darebin City Council FUSE Festival, 2021, feelings, PICA, 2019.
Jack Caddy is an artist and maker, living in Boorloo, Perth, whose practice is concerned with how consumption can be an act of communion in the cultivation of ourselves.
Graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University (2018) he has exhibited work with Moana Project Space for Hobiennale, TAS (2017), Sister Gallery SA (2018), and Cool Change Contemporary, WA (2019). He also has work published in Island Island for Bus Projects VIC (2018) and presented at Revelation Film Festival Academic conference, WA (2018).
Grace Connors is an artist, writer and curator living in Boorloo (Perth, Western Australia). She completed her Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) in 2016, and her practice draws from post humanist studies and cyber feminism to look critically toward systems of control, our relationships to technology and to each other. Connors is presently co-founder and Deputy Chairperson of Cool Change Contemporary, and was previously Exhibitions Volunteer at Success Arts and Exhibitions Manager at Moana Project Space. She has curated offsite exhibitions for Hobiennale in 2017 and Symbiotica’s Unhallowed Arts Festival in 2018. Additionally, she has presented papers at Revelation Film Festival Academic Conference in 2018, UWA Gender Diversity in Music and Art Conference 2019, and had her performance work featured in Frieze Magazine in 2017. She was previously artist in residence at The Perth Institute of Contemporary Art developing her performance project Running on the Smell of an Oily Rag.