Hondartza Fraga
Hondartza Fraga is interested in using souvenirs and domestic objects (‘Blank Globes’, ‘Mappa’) to force a dialogue between the domestic and the remote, suggesting narrative and contradictions between seemingly unconnected subjects. In this way, a drawing of a ship’s model shadow, evocative of travels to faraway lands, is exposed as the negation of that very journey (‘Never Arrived, Never Parted’). Beached whales are the starting point and main characters in the series ‘As it falls, either remembered or not seen’. Based on found images of beached whales, shipwrecks and other scenes at sea, the subjects float against the flatness of the blank paper as if incomplete fragments of a dream or a half remembered story. These characters stand for distance, dislocation, the meaning of being lost, of disappearing.
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Debi Holbrook
“The lure of the abandoned object is hard for me to ignore, curiosity and empathy compel me to question its story and reason for discard.”
Debi Holbrook transposes the human condition with inanimate and often domestic, found objects where distinction become blurred between autobiographical memory, imagination and evidence.
Duncan Lister & Bob Milner
For the next twelve months we will be adapting and evolving a constructed room within a studio situation, dedicating time and effort into creating the ideal drinking and exhibiting environment. This personal space will be opened to the public on six occasions during the year when strangers will be invited to become friends, if only for the moment. At other times, the room will remain by invitation only, a private drinking den; the perfect setting for a vigorous exchange of ideas. It will be a space in which to play, question and explore. And get drunk. And draw a bit.
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