Vessels, Vehicles, Velocity (vroom, vroom, vroom) exhibition

Thursday 14 September - Saturday 28 October 2023

Launch: 6pm Friday 22 September

Ian Whittaker is a Far North Queensland artist with passions for cultural adventure, ceramic sculpture, and creative electronic media.

In the terminology of the radical metaphysics of Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lila), Ian Whittaker sees his life as a quest to embrace dynamic quality over static quality; to seek change, growth, and new understanding.

Vessels, Vehicles, Velocity (vroom, vroom, vroom) is a collection of reminiscences – some real, having actual coordinates in the space-time continuum, and others fantastical. Vivid moments in time or in the architecture of Ian’s imagination, are all deeply symbolic of dynamic growth: Ian’s childhood family car (and his current one), memories of pivotal experiences in travel in Arnhem Land or India jumble against dreamy voyages of the mind with billowing sails or steaming boilers.

“My life feels great when things are moving, when new experience seems imminent. This exhibition is about dozens of ways to make that happen.”

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