ARRAY

OLIVER CLOKE,  KATHY HEYWARD & KATE TUCKER

BUS PROJECTS

ARRAY is a Graduate Show for three Artists who share a fascination with the investigation of ideas through making and construction. Through their mixed media work they investigate the collation and re-ordering of ideas and materials. By exploring the limits of chosen materials they seek to enhance properties inherent within them, at the same time crafting a sensory experience for the viewer. As materials are manipulated to assign new meanings, the Artists explore the enhancement of value through the act of making.

The works included will represent a methodical approach to Art Making driven by a need to explore and illustrate the space between the experience of Art making and it’s wider context. A language of disruption and ambiguity will link the work, as well as a conscious play on physical and Image space. As Kate’s Worlds and Internal Worlds disrupt and reverse the picture plane, Kathy’s string installations will divide and rearrange the room into a series of images. Kathy and Oliver’s Installation will aim to highlight through mimicry, the differences between the crafting of artworks and the methodologies of exposition of art in the public realm. Through their manipulations of material and space, the Artists will seek to construct physical and emotional experiences for the viewer, inviting them to ponder what impact that has on their own thinking and awareness.

Oliver Cloke is a London born artist now living in Melbourne, after completing his Ba(Hons) at the Slade School of Fine Art London (2006) he became a teacher of Art, and is now studying the Post-Graduate Diploma at the VCA (2009). He has exhibited and curated shows in London, Malta and New York and his work has been privately collected.

Katherine Heyward is a city born, country bred artist who lives in a tram. She completed her BFA in Printmaking at the VCA in 2000 and then pursued various means, settling on teaching secondary students the meaning of art and life. She is currently studying the Post Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts at the VCA (2009). Kathy has exhibited in a range of group and solo shows since 1994.

Kate Tucker is a Melbourne based Artist working across a variety of media. Her Illustrations have appeared in many publications, and her Melbourne-made Bag label, Katarzynkha, gained a cult following before being would up to allow Kate to focus on her Art. Kate has featured in two books and in 2005 was the Winner or the Flinders Quarter Award, in the Emerging Designer Category. Kate is currently completing a Graduate Diploma in Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts. In ARRAY Kate will exhibit animation, mixed media paintings, drawings and sculpture.