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Commitment to form (scripts)
Linden New Art - Project Space
August 2025
(Exhibition August 22nd - September 20th - Opening event, Saturday September 6th, 1 - 4pm)
Linden New Art - Project Space
August 2025
(Exhibition August 22nd - September 20th - Opening event, Saturday September 6th, 1 - 4pm)
Commitment to form (scripts) investigates the (artist's) body as a type of art-making tool informed by lived experience, personal history, spatial memory and cultural conditioning. The project employs the idea of ‘script’ as a framework, the project investigates how movement, actions and choices can become habitual and scripted within the mind-body over time.
The works in this exhibition were created from the proposition that the artist's own body is a site and record that contains real and remembered relationships between it and the physical and psychological spaces, tools and materials of the lived environment. The project explores how art making can therefore be viewed as an extension and reflection of mind-body habits in the sense of an automated set of instructions (scripts). And in turn, how this might inform the articulation and outcomes of artworks, including the negotiation of materials, tools, studio space, pictorial space and exhibition space.
Commitment to form (scripts) specifically focuses on how these propositions manifest in the relationship between (hand) writing and the body, and in the slippages that occur, both in form and meaning, when writing becomes scribble, becomes drawing, becomes mark-making, becomes gesture and form. Furthermore, the works investigate ideas regarding narrative and storytelling structures within the page, pictorial space and exhibition space in relation to the movement of (viewer) bodies, and the generation of meaning.
Centrally, the works in Commitment to form (scripts) seek to subtly invert and dismantle typical conventions of communication and understanding - painting becomes sculpture, sculpture becomes drawing, drawing becomes text, text becomes body - highlighting that the attribution and articulation of meaning in the material is a slippery space.
The works in this exhibition were created from the proposition that the artist's own body is a site and record that contains real and remembered relationships between it and the physical and psychological spaces, tools and materials of the lived environment. The project explores how art making can therefore be viewed as an extension and reflection of mind-body habits in the sense of an automated set of instructions (scripts). And in turn, how this might inform the articulation and outcomes of artworks, including the negotiation of materials, tools, studio space, pictorial space and exhibition space.
Commitment to form (scripts) specifically focuses on how these propositions manifest in the relationship between (hand) writing and the body, and in the slippages that occur, both in form and meaning, when writing becomes scribble, becomes drawing, becomes mark-making, becomes gesture and form. Furthermore, the works investigate ideas regarding narrative and storytelling structures within the page, pictorial space and exhibition space in relation to the movement of (viewer) bodies, and the generation of meaning.
Centrally, the works in Commitment to form (scripts) seek to subtly invert and dismantle typical conventions of communication and understanding - painting becomes sculpture, sculpture becomes drawing, drawing becomes text, text becomes body - highlighting that the attribution and articulation of meaning in the material is a slippery space.
