Arbour Ardour
2020, Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney.
Overview Arbour Ardour (2020) Type C photographic prints applied to various modified IKEA PAX Wardrobes (Birch effect) and laser cut polygonal Dibond panels of varying dimensions positioned within a multi-perspectival spatial environment confabulated out of 1,104 80 gsm A3 recycled paper. Installed at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery Sydney from the 25 th to the 28 th of 2020.
Arbour Ardour was a gallery-based project presented at Roslyn Oxley9 (Eora/Sydney) Australia’s leading commercial gallery. It was installed over 4 days from the 26th of October and opened to the public on October 30th, 2020. It was on view till the 28th of November. It is the only work we have realised to date using A3 80 gsm recycled paper. It had several concerns including how to redress the increasing correspondence between spectacle and material privilege in art and life and the collapse of historical memory with all the dreadful consequences that come when context is a vacuum. Our labour – the patient application of the overlapping photocopies was intended as a calculated queer flourish in which the manual and the conceptual were coterminous.
Arbour Ardour (Detail) From left D.98 On The Wallaby Track 2010-2020 C-type print applied to the interior of IKEA PAX (Birch finish) 2 door cupboard, back replaced with 3mm Dibond with split battens, IKEA GILBERT chair and IKEA FROSTA stool 236.4 x 60 x 100 direct to wall mounted back, side panels mounted on metal wall brackets, D.123 Gardens By The Bay (2019-2020) Type C photographic print applied to laser cut circle 55 cm diameter and (cropped) D.116 Purple Reign (2018 -2020) details as for D.98
Installation schema Arbour Ardour showing section of panoramic image framing the works described in the image above. A3 Alpha-Numerical grid for 1,104 individual 80 gsm A3 monochromatic photocopies (laser prints)
Arbour Ardour (Detail) From left Landscape Plank (Still Glides The Stream and Shall Forever Glide, 2020) Photocopy (laser print) on 80 gsm Fluro Pink paper wrapped around 19mm thick dressed pine 234 x 18.4 cm, D.120 Botanical Gardens Singapore, C-type print applied to the interior of IKEA PAX (Birch finish) 2 door cupboard, back replaced with 3mm Dibond with split battens, IKEA GILBERT chair and IKEA FROSTA stool (236.4 x 60 x 100) and D.121 Golden Summer 1 (2012-2020) Type C photographic print applied to laser cut polygonal 6mm Dibond panel 115.6 x 89.45 (cropped)
Arbour Ardour (Detail) From left , D.120 Botanical Gardens Singapore, C-type print applied to the interior of IKEA PAX (Birch finish) 2 door cupboard, back replaced with 3mm Dibond with split battens, IKEA GILBERT chair and IKEA FROSTA stool (236.4 x 60 x 100 (cropped), and D.121 Golden Summer 1 (2012-2020) Type C photographic print applied to laser cut polygonal 6mm Dibond panel 115.6 x 89.45, D.122 Golden Summer 2, 2012-2020 Type C photographic print applied to laser cut polygonal 6mm Dibond panel 116.42 x 88.27, D.98 On The Wallaby Track (2010-2020) C-type print applied to the interior of IKEA PAX (Birch finish) 2 door cupboard, back replaced with 3mm Dibond with split battens, IKEA GILBERT chair and IKEA FROSTA stool 236.4 x 60 x 100 (cropped)
Installation schema Arbour Ardour showing section of panoramic image framing the works described in the image aforementioned. A3 Alpha-Numerical grid for 1,104 individual 80 gsm A3 monochromatic photocopies (Laser prints)
Arbour Ardour (Detail) From left D.98 On The Wallaby Track 2010-2020 C-type print applied to the interior of IKEA PAX (Birch finish) 2 door cupboard, back replaced with 3mm Dibond with split battens, IKEA GILBERT chair and IKEA FROSTA stool 236.4 x 60 x 100 direct to wall mounted back, side panels mounted on metal wall brackets (FROSTA stool not shown)
From right D.116 Purple Reign, C-type print applied to the interior of IKEA PAX (Birch finish) 2 door cupboard, back replaced with 3mm Dibond with split battens, IKEA GILBERT chair and IKEA FROSTA stool (236.4 x 60 x 100) Assembled and inserted into wall cavity.
D.121 Golden Summer 1 (2012-2020) Type C photographic print applied to laser cut polygonal 6mm Dibond panel 115.6 x 89.45, D.122 Golden Summer 2, 2012-2020 Type C photographic print applied to laser cut polygonal 6mm Dibond panel 116.42 x 88.27