Alexander Jackson Wyatt, Consuelo Cavaniglia, Mimi Kind, Sardar Sinjawi, MP Hopkins, Rainer Linz, Stephen Bram, Helen Smith, Belle Blau, Emma Davidson Curated by Ruark Lewis

11 January 2023 - 5 February 2023

Free Admission

Opening 6-8pm January 11th.

Laws tend to govern collections of assorted things. To gather flowers: greek legein – together, greek anthos - flower, greek logia - collection. As in a medley, a collection of diverse and assorted things. In particular order. Not in chaos. Laws govern the collection of things.
As a collection, the aim of this exhibition is to select particular things that correspond and share a likeness, or form harmonious contrasts and connections. We can think of the collection of thematically linked things, that affect or imprint on the world, as being more or less persuasive than one single example.
A.N.T.H.O.L.O.G.Y is a collection of artists, poets and practicing musicians who share the contemporary moment. These ‘things’ that are collected are located in the area we call abstract and non-objective art. A.N.T.H.O.L.O.G.Y is an ongoing curatorial effort by SNO Contemporary Art Projects or Sydney Non Objective.

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Sydney Non Objective | SNO is centred on artists with shared commitment, and from that centre it reaches out towards a broad, interested public curious as to how seemingly different practices, whether material, time-based or spatial, can inform and enliven our experience of the world through art.
Although the term ‘artist-run initiative’ where artists are in control of their own destiny is commonplace, SNO is much more than that. Rather than a gallery, it’s a large idea occupying a variety of spaces, locations and utilising other means. By its ambitious vision, SNO connects local and international artists, and artists across the country and region in a substantial way, establishing meaningful personal and art relationships at an international level and promoting the production of new work far more than most well-resourced museums.
from FIELD NOTES, SNO Publications forthcoming

Alexander Jackson Wyatt lives and works between Sydney & Vienna. His work uses text, installation and spatial intervention to explore notions of discrepancy and the occupation of space. Jackson Wyatt employs varying strategies and methodologies stemming from writing and sculpture. He has exhibited throughout Australia and internationally.

Consuelo Cavaniglia’s interdisciplinary practice explores spatiality and site, creating subtle illusions that remind us of the shifting boundaries of vision and feeling, or as the artist states “things are unfixed, movable and in constant flux”. Her sculptural installations distort and rearrange our expectation of a single perspective, providing multiple and sometimes disorienting viewpoints for the encounter with the object. She has exhibited widely in Australia, notably at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Galerie Pompom Sydney and Bus Projects in Melbourne.

Mimi Kind’s works involve realising the organic, lively nature within objects through movement and sound. Within her practice, Kind integrates unexpected technologies and materials to create a vitality reminiscent of forms moving in nature. Her works are informed by the ways materials respond to organised situations, and suggest an inherent delicacy within reiterated units. She has exhibited in various locations throughout Australia.

Sardar Sinjawi’s career in the arts has unfolded in Australia and overseas, following his engagement in art and culture in Kurdistan in the early eighties. After arrival in Australia, Sardar has consolidated his skills in the visual arts through university study and an active contribution to local cultural development. Sardar has exhibited widely in both Australia and Kurdistan.

MP Hopkins makes audio, performance, radiophonic, and textual works. He uses voice, feedback, recording/playback devices, and verbal notation within different acoustic environments, which are deconstructed and presented to the listener in delicate and degraded ways. He has performed and exhibited both in Australia and internationally.

Composer and media artist Rainer Linz has written for radio, music theatre, instrumental, electronic and interactive music forms. He was a recipient of the Australia Council New Media Art Fellowship when there was such a thing. (OUP 1999) notes “Linz’s innovative and entrepreneurial work in Melbourne has been a significant factor in the city’s prominence in experimental music.”

Stephen Bram’s contribution to Australian contemporary art is seen in his introduction of European modernist theories into abstract compositions. He is
critically acclaimed for highly refined paintings, large-scale wall drawings, and
architectural environments that he has produced and exhibited in galleries around the world.

Helen Smith’s practice is influenced by a formal, minimalist view-point with simplicity of form and geometric abstraction generally contributing to the outcome. Since 2002 she has been an active member of the Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA). She has exhibited both in Australia and internationally.

Belle Blau’s interests lie in disrupting the self-referential tendencies of ‘pure’ Formalist and Minimalist art. Her work often begins in writing, using fragments of poetics as the basis for reductive abstract works—crafted in response to lived experience with others. By working in this way, Blau injects the social into a creative domain known historically for its autonomy, challenging the notion of an art/life divide. Her work continues to explore the ways in which intimacy and intersubjectivity can be de-gendered and de-marginalised, both as subjects within abstraction and as modes of functioning outside of art.

Emma Davidson is from Sydney and lives and works on Gundungurra and Dharug land, Katoomba. Her practice emerged from and remains largely embedded within the underground zine community, and is strongly influenced by tools and tropes of zine-making: photocopies, typewriters, mail art. Her practice explores experimental writing, printmaking, installation, and community and collaborative projects.