BUS Projects
20 November – 8 December, 2012 | Steve Cox | Rowan Moyle
Permanent Post Vacation
Rowan Moyle
Opening Tuesday 20 November 6-8pm
Tuesday 20 November – Saturday 8 December 2012
Permanent Post Vacation is an ongoing project exploring the discrepancy between our spatial experience of cities at home and overseas, as solitary backpackers and as integrated locals. I am interested in the interstitial space between arrival and settlement. The point before we fall back into the general flow of everyday life, where travel becomes more or less limited to commutation and innocent exploration is construed as loitering or time-wasting. Responding to personal feelings associated with post-travel, this project culminates in spatial interventions, walks, and other coping strategies aimed to invoke feelings of the uncanny and unfamiliar within my everyday environment.
Rowan Moyle is an emerging artist working with diverse materials and methodologies. Rowan completed a Bachelor of Visual Art and a Bachelor of Arts at Monash University in 2010. In 2011 he was awarded the Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Award and extensively travelled throughout Japan and India. Returning to Australia in 2012, he has begun exhibiting in artist-run initiatives across Melbourne including Seventh and Platform, and has been able to utilise his recent travel experiences to provide insight into his practice and collaborative projects as a member of ACAB Collective. Rowan is currently completing a Graduate Diploma of Education at Monash University.
Inferno: A Reinterpretation of Dante
Steve Cox
Opening Tuesday 20 November 6-8pm
20 November – 8 December, 2012
Steve Cox presents a body of work reinterpreting this marvelous epic poem from the thirteenth-century, which is contained in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The text describes Dante’s journey through the nine circles of Hell. Each region contains its own specific horrors and monsters.
In a series of over sixty new works Cox re-imagines these grotesqueries and updates them to give a contemporary flavour. Dante’s rich descriptions and wild invention are perfect subject matter for Cox, who is well-known for the often black humour in his work.
The exhibition extends Cox’s interest in stream-of-consciousness pictorial invention. The works showcase his expertise with watercolour, ink and collage and, in a recent development, digital imagery.
Inferno has inspired many artists over the centuries, including William Blake, Gustave Doré and Robert Rauschenberg. Artists have continually found contemporary relevance in the text and have each brought their personal observations to the task.
As an atheist, Cox’s idea of Hell is as a useful metaphor not to be taken literally. He includes references to the marginalised, the displaced, and the outcast: all of whom have been forced to travel through their own personal Hell on earth. He has made reference to the never-ending hell of war on earth. He has also been delighted by the monstrous creatures that have emerged by chance through the fluidity of ink and watercolour.
Man’s inhumanity to man is perennial and no less current today than in Dante’s time. For Cox, this subject-matter has enabled him to create an Underworld populated by creatures if the Id. This will be his first Melbourne exhibition since 2010.
Supported by the City of Melbourne through the Arts Grants Program.
20 November – 8 December, 2012 | Steve Cox | Rowan Moyle
Permanent Post Vacation
Rowan Moyle
Opening Tuesday 20 November 6-8pm
Tuesday 20 November – Saturday 8 December 2012
Permanent Post Vacation is an ongoing project exploring the discrepancy between our spatial experience of cities at home and overseas, as solitary backpackers and as integrated locals. I am interested in the interstitial space between arrival and settlement. The point before we fall back into the general flow of everyday life, where travel becomes more or less limited to commutation and innocent exploration is construed as loitering or time-wasting. Responding to personal feelings associated with post-travel, this project culminates in spatial interventions, walks, and other coping strategies aimed to invoke feelings of the uncanny and unfamiliar within my everyday environment.
Rowan Moyle is an emerging artist working with diverse materials and methodologies. Rowan completed a Bachelor of Visual Art and a Bachelor of Arts at Monash University in 2010. In 2011 he was awarded the Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Award and extensively travelled throughout Japan and India. Returning to Australia in 2012, he has begun exhibiting in artist-run initiatives across Melbourne including Seventh and Platform, and has been able to utilise his recent travel experiences to provide insight into his practice and collaborative projects as a member of ACAB Collective. Rowan is currently completing a Graduate Diploma of Education at Monash University.
Inferno: A Reinterpretation of Dante
Steve Cox
Opening Tuesday 20 November 6-8pm
20 November – 8 December, 2012
Steve Cox presents a body of work reinterpreting this marvelous epic poem from the thirteenth-century, which is contained in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The text describes Dante’s journey through the nine circles of Hell. Each region contains its own specific horrors and monsters.
In a series of over sixty new works Cox re-imagines these grotesqueries and updates them to give a contemporary flavour. Dante’s rich descriptions and wild invention are perfect subject matter for Cox, who is well-known for the often black humour in his work.
The exhibition extends Cox’s interest in stream-of-consciousness pictorial invention. The works showcase his expertise with watercolour, ink and collage and, in a recent development, digital imagery.
Inferno has inspired many artists over the centuries, including William Blake, Gustave Doré and Robert Rauschenberg. Artists have continually found contemporary relevance in the text and have each brought their personal observations to the task.
As an atheist, Cox’s idea of Hell is as a useful metaphor not to be taken literally. He includes references to the marginalised, the displaced, and the outcast: all of whom have been forced to travel through their own personal Hell on earth. He has made reference to the never-ending hell of war on earth. He has also been delighted by the monstrous creatures that have emerged by chance through the fluidity of ink and watercolour.
Man’s inhumanity to man is perennial and no less current today than in Dante’s time. For Cox, this subject-matter has enabled him to create an Underworld populated by creatures if the Id. This will be his first Melbourne exhibition since 2010.
Supported by the City of Melbourne through the Arts Grants Program.