Encroachment, 2024 by Ann Goddard

Highlights: 4 - 10 November, 2024

New Art Highlights includes: Chris Alton, Ann Goddard, Susan Eyre and Menna Angharad

Hold Space for the Unfixable, 2024

Chris Alton

Hold Space for the Unfixable, Cotton, 170x153cm, 2024, in collaboration with Emily Simpson

Hold Space for the Unfixable was ‘pieced’ by Chris Alton & Emily Simpson and quilted by people taking part in a conversation about living with grief. The conversation was held at Paradise Works as part of the exhibition Unbearable Lightness of Being, Sept-Oct 2024.

170 x 153 cm

Encroachment, 2024

Ann Goddard

I'm thrilled that my piece ‘Encroachment’ has been selected to be included in the International Art Textile Biennale 2025. The exhibition will tour to six galleries in Australia during 2025 /26.

The artwork is a wall based, sculptural, mixed-media relief. It reflects my concern for the environment and the impact human activity is having on ecosystems and biodiversity. The dense tangle of spiky paper cord, alludes to the natural world – unruly and teeming with life. In contrast, the organic forms give way to featureless roofing felt representing the construction industry, relentlessly replacing nature. The piece aims to highlight the delicate balance between progress and preservation in our rapidly changing world.

47 x 38 x 8 cm

Belly of a Rock, 2023

Susan Eyre

Belly of a Rock is an imagined place of chemical conversations at the intersection of the animate and inanimate.

Under a crusted shell, surfaces slide and scrape along lines of fissure, distended innards ooze and rocks moan as they are distorted by untold pressure. The turbulent spiralling of the molten core births rock and lifeforms which are acted upon by the drag of an oscillating magnetic field. A hybrid between rock, mollusc and technology this video sculpture responds to the first mollusc’s desire to communicate and urge to create as described by Italo Calvino in his story ‘The Spiral’. We don’t always know what we are creating.

70 x 70 x 40 cm