Ella Sutherland

An
unbearded, athletic
youth

23 Nov — 22 Dec 2013

A remarkably sure touch, 2013digital print on aluminium Photo credit Daegan Wells
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A remarkably sure touch, 2013
digital print on aluminium

Photo credit Daegan Wells

No repeats, one moment, one space, 2013 digital print Photo credit Daegan Wells
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No repeats, one moment, one space, 2013
digital print

Photo credit Daegan Wells

Slurring of the false spiral, 2013clay, slip, pine, water-based acrylic Photo credit Daegan Wells
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Slurring of the false spiral, 2013
clay, slip, pine, water-based acrylic

Photo credit Daegan Wells

Slurring of the false spiral, 2013clay, slip, pine, water-based acrylic Photo credit Daegan Wells
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Slurring of the false spiral, 2013
clay, slip, pine, water-based acrylic

Photo credit Daegan Wells

Slurring of the false spiral, 2013clay, slip, pine, water-based acrylic Photo credit Daegan Wells
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Slurring of the false spiral, 2013
clay, slip, pine, water-based acrylic

Photo credit Daegan Wells

An unbearded, athletic youth, 2013installation view Photo credit Daegan Wells
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An unbearded, athletic youth, 2013
installation view

Photo credit Daegan Wells

A remarkably sure touch, 2013digital print on aluminium Image credit Daegan Wells
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A remarkably sure touch, 2013
digital print on aluminium

Image credit Daegan Wells

No repeats, one moment, one space, 2013digital print Photo credit Daegan Wells
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No repeats, one moment, one space, 2013
digital print

Photo credit Daegan Wells

An unbearded, athletic youth, 2013installation view, 2013 Photo credit Daegan Wells
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An unbearded, athletic youth, 2013
installation view, 2013

Photo credit Daegan Wells

An unbearded, athletic youth, 2013installation view Photo credit Daegan Wells
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An unbearded, athletic youth2013
installation view

Photo credit Daegan Wells

Working within a well-worn stream of representation, Ella Sutherland uses the visual vocabulary of ancient Greece to look at the relationship between the formal, physical and linguistic gesture. An unbearded, athletic youth negotiates the responsibility of a graphic system across contexts; appropriating, transcribing and collating to figure the relationship between communicative language and representational objects.

An unbearded, athletic youth coaxes a graphic sensibility to operate in a different register; the planned and the erratic are brought together to complement and complicate a rational system. The poetic and the incomplete invert familiar patterns, making experience of the known strange and filled with options.

Where does one begin, making our way through this riot of voices tumbling forth from our own histories, your history, history’s history. It’s a real fruit salad of surfaces out there, but how does once describe a voice whose time we cannot see? Nothing is happening, but I feel like it could have. If nothing is definite, everything is possible; what we are looking at is an alphabet of potential.

 

Ella Sutherland is a Christchurch-based artist and graphic designer. She recently graduated with an MFA from Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury and is a co-founder of Dog Park Art Project Space (2012-). Recent projects include Seeing Which Way the Wind Blows with Matt Galloway, split/fountain, Auckland, 2013; Popular Brands to Steal for New Artists Show, Artspace, Auckland, 2012; and This That with Dave Marshall, Dog Park Art Project Space, Christchurch, 2012 

 

 

Free Downloads:
A response to the exhibition by Ashlin Raymond (pdf)