'Thinking Hands' - Group exhibition (upstairs in the Stala Project Space gallery)

9-September-2023 - 30-September-2023

A group exhibition in the Stala Contemporary upstairs Project Space gallery featuring:

  • Leonie Mansbridge
  • Sue Leeming
  • Antonia Radich
  • Johanna Valom
  • Kay Wood

Thinking Hands

The current global networked culture (that puts so much emphasis on the the visual/virtual) gives rise to a situation where the mind and the body have become detached and ultimately disconnected.  End products are pre-determined, by what Timothy Morton calls  “hyperobjects”—entities of such vast temporal and spatial dimensions that they defeat traditional ideas about what a thing is in the first place.

This exhibition focusses on the nexus between self and work as one that is dialogic and corporeal – a visceral and gestural call and response as form emerges due to the dialogue between each subject and the object(s) of their attention. 

The concerns for the loss of the importance of the sensory, begun in his classic work The Eyes of The Skin  are extended in Juhani Pallasmaa’s The Thinking Hand, where he reveals the miraculous potential of the human hand. The hand and what it holds (be it brush, pencil, dirt, hammer or  needle) becomes the bridge between the imagining mind and the emerging image/object. The book surveys the multiple essences of the hand, its biological evolution and its role in the shaping of culture, highlighting how the hand–tool union and eye–hand–mind fusion are essential for dexterity and how ultimately the body and the senses play a crucial role in memory and creative work.

The impetus behind this exhibition was to focus on the communicative energy between maker and materiality, where the hand may be called by, and communicated to, from materiality, in a conversation that is embracing, unpredictable,  and continually evolving. 

Kay Wood

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'Thinking Hands' - Group exhibition (upstairs in the Stala Project Space gallery)

Represented Artists

Sue Leeming

Kay Wood

Guest Artists

  • Antonia Radich
  • Johanna Valom
  • Leonie Mansbridge

Artworks

ANTONIA RADICH - Tracings (inbetween spaces) (detail) ANTONIA RADICH - Tracings (inbetween spaces) (detail)
$1,100
ANTONIA RADICH - Tracings (influx) (detail) ANTONIA RADICH - Tracings (influx) (detail)
$1,100
ANTONIA RADICH - Tracings (interiority) (detail) ANTONIA RADICH - Tracings (interiority) (detail)
$1,100
JOHANNA VALOM - Back Together JOHANNA VALOM - Back Together
$2,200
KAY WOOD - Ercolana KAY WOOD - Ercolana
$430
KAY WOOD - Thou Shalt Not KAY WOOD - Thou Shalt Not
$500
LEONIE MANSBRIDGE - Dark Clouds LEONIE MANSBRIDGE - Dark Clouds
$675
LEONIE MANSBRIDGE - Lion Rock LEONIE MANSBRIDGE - Lion Rock
$675
LEONIE MANSBRIDGE - Pipi Shells LEONIE MANSBRIDGE - Pipi Shells
$475
SUE LEEMING - Te Ao 3 SUE LEEMING - Te Ao 3
$1,200
SUE LEEMING - Te Ao 6 SUE LEEMING - Te Ao 6
$1,200
KAY WOOD - Rousseau KAY WOOD - Rousseau sold

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