Michela Pegum, Earthbound, Lightbound, 2018, Earth, Mirror, Light. Photo: Michaela Pegum

Earthbound, Lightbound

Inari Kiuru (FI/AU)
Aurelia Yeomans
Michaela Pegum
Lauralai Wilson 

4– 21 September

Wed– Sat 12-5pm 

(OPENING)

Wed 11 September, 6-9pm

at 

Rubicon ARI

Level 1, 309 Queensbury St
North Melbourne 3051​

Inari Kiuru, Blue sky, no answer, pendants 2017, Concrete, gold, copper, enamel, 925 silver  45mm and 60mm  Photo: Inari Kiuru

The artists in Earth bound, Light bound share a deep interest in the rich and mercurial paradigm that encompasses our connection with the earth and its atmospheres.

Their practices involve a close observation of the shared space of natural phenomena and emotions, and how they may be focussed into the pure and discrete realm of a crafted form that generates a gravity of its own.

The works in this exhibition are the result of intimately engaged material practices that involve sensitive and intensive transformations of materials. They speak in languages that resonate internally and externally, referencing the landscape, the body and the psyche and the symmetries and tensions between them.

@earthbound_lightbound

Aurelia Yeomans, Cycles(5), 2017, Mild steel, vitreous enamel, stainless steel, 4.1x4.1x0.9cm. Photo: Aurelia Yeomans

(ABOUT THE ARTISTS)
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Inari Kiuru is a Brunswick-based artist and designer with a multidisciplinary practice encompassing jewellery, objects, images and installation. Born in Finland, she has a strong native relationship with seasonal changes. This drives her to observe and portray light, weather and changing atmospheres, drawing parallels between our external and internal landscapes. Inari works with materials integral to the urban settings (concrete, glass and steel for example), revealing the poetic qualities of non-precious, industrial ingredients – and the surprising beauty often hidden in the mundane and the unexpected. Inari migrated to Australia in 1995 and worked as a graphic designer until graduating with Honours in Fine Art (Object Based Practice) from RMIT University in 2013. She has exhibited in curated group shows in Australia, New Zealand, USA and Europe and is represented by Gallery Funaki, Melbourne. www.inarikiuru.blogspot.com @ordinari_observer / @the_indoor_forest_project

Fascinated by the energetic frequencies connecting humanity, nature and all living things - Aurelia Yeoman’s practice explores the material and immaterial which guides our perceptive experience of the world. Working within the field of contemporary jewellery, she creates pieces that sensitively reflect on phenomena, metamorphosis and geometry within the natural world. With a background in goldsmithing and design (Germany), Aurelia completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) in 2016, majoring in Gold and silversmithing at RMIT University. She is represented by the National Gallery of Victoria, E.g.Etal and Craft and has exhibited extensively in Australia, Europe and the USA. @aureliayeomans www.aureliayeomans.com

With more than fifteen years as a contemporary dancer and choreographer behind her, Michaela Pegum embarked on a Bachelor of Fine Art, Gold and Silversmithing at RMIT, she graduated with first class Honours in 2016 and is a current PhD candidate there. Michaela’s practice centres on our capacity for deeply embodied and poetic relationships with the natural world. Her work spans the sculptural and the wearable. She explores how the ephemeral affects of environments and atmospheres become tangible sensation in the body and how their enigmatic and irreconcilable qualities may find articulation through the crafting of unique material forms. michaelapegum.com @michaela_pegum

Lauralai Wilson is a maker primarily working in contemporary jewellery. Her practice is informed by a fascination with the imaginary and an awareness of the transformative nature of materials. A strong sense of sentimentality, sensitivity and craftsmanship guide her as she collects and translates minerals and debris into wearable works and imagined creatures with pearlescent surfaces and subtle luminance. @lauralai_ www.lauralaiwilson.com