Container
Katrina Tyler, Freight train dosie doe, 2017, copper, enamel paint, 4m. Photo: Shane Northey
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Map reference number: 10
30 August – 16 September
Wed–Sat 12–5pm Opening: Wed 30 August, 6–9pm Artist talk & drinks: Sat 16 September, 4–6pm
Artist/s: Katrina Tyler
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Container will be a solo exhibition of wearable and sculptural pieces that capture and evoke the dilapidated beauty, systematic order and quirky structures I’m drawn to in the industrial landscape in and around the west of Melbourne.
The works will explore and recontextualise a language of form, scale, material, colour, structure and juxtapositions gleaned from these landscapes in order to renegotiate the viewer’s relationship to industry, and muse on elements and moments of beauty and interest to be found.
The works will explore and recontextualise a language of form, scale, material, colour, structure and juxtapositions gleaned from these landscapes in order to renegotiate the viewer’s relationship to industry, and muse on elements and moments of beauty and interest to be found.
a. Katrina Tyler, De-commissioned, 2017, copper, enamel paint, 7.5 x 11cm. Photo: Shane Northey
b.-d. Katrina Tyler, Freight train dosie doe, 2017, copper, enamel paint, 4m. Photo: Shane Northey
b.-d. Katrina Tyler, Freight train dosie doe, 2017, copper, enamel paint, 4m. Photo: Shane Northey
About the Artist
Katrina Tyler is a Gold and Silversmith whose practice includes jewellery, small sculpture and public art. She works predominantly in metal utilising traditional metal smithing techniques and materials, with kiln fired enamel, precious gems, enamel paints and patinas. Katrina’s work explores real and imagined sites of intersection and co-habitation between natural and urban habitats, representing the constant activity and cycles of growth, decay and evolution that are omnipresent within the urban environment. Her work aims to offer a moment for contemplation about our place within the urban ecology and forces of nature acting within and beyond our realms of comprehension.
Katrina Tyler is a Gold and Silversmith whose practice includes jewellery, small sculpture and public art. She works predominantly in metal utilising traditional metal smithing techniques and materials, with kiln fired enamel, precious gems, enamel paints and patinas. Katrina’s work explores real and imagined sites of intersection and co-habitation between natural and urban habitats, representing the constant activity and cycles of growth, decay and evolution that are omnipresent within the urban environment. Her work aims to offer a moment for contemplation about our place within the urban ecology and forces of nature acting within and beyond our realms of comprehension.
