Accessorise - Sixfold Project

Allsorts, Barbara Dover, Found objects 2023. Photography by Michael Marzik.

Thursday 2 November 2023 – Saturday 13 January 2024

Launch: 6pm, Friday 3 November

Accessorise is an opportunity for creative play from Australian artist collective, Sixfold Project. Walking the line between rigorous studio practice and notions of commercial ‘success’, the artists dabble in creative baubles, wearable art, and sculptural works to enhance our bodies, lives, and spaces.

Following the thread of creative experimentation, Accessorise delivers an array of work expanding our understanding of art making, art collecting and the fluidity of studio practice.

Taking art off the walls and onto the streets, Accessorise features work from Six "Friends-Over-Long-Distance" – Raewyn Biggs (Cook Islands), Barbara Dover (FNQ), Louisa Ennis-Thomas (VIC), Julie Poulsen (FNQ), Rose Rigley (FNQ) and Jennifer Valmadre (FNQ).

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Artist is Present Performative Art:

Witness artist Rose Rigley create her conceptual, crocheted work within the gallery space for four of the Thursdays during the exhibition. This silent creative performance is about presence; the audience observing and the artist making within the here and now, being within the present moment. In a nod to the 2009 work of Marina Abramović, Rigley invites viewer participation into the self-reflective and quiet world of the artist as she considers loss through her repetitive and time-consuming sculptural processes.

Performative Art allows an audience to observe as an artist (or artists) activates a space for a set amount of time in a designated area. The live presence of the artist and the actual motions of their body are essential to the development and execution of the concept. The viewing audience becomes an integral part of this ephemeral art experience with time, space, and this interaction also being crucial elements.

In 2016, theorist Jonah Westerman remarked “performance is not (and never was) a medium, not something that an artwork can be but rather a set of questions and concerns about how art relates to people and the wider social world”.