Here & There
Thomas O'Hara, Untitled (brooch), 2016, 75mm x 60mm x 35mm, Unknown eucalyptus, stainless steel. Photo: Thomas O'Hara
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Map reference number: 20
18 – 31 August
Tue–Fri 10am–8pm, Sat–Sun 10am–6pm Opening: Fri 18 August, 6–9pm
Artist/s: Lindy McSwan & Thomas O’Hara
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Here & There is an exhibition by Lindy McSwan and Thomas O’Hara. Both artist have practices founded experience and exploration of natural landscapes. Lindy’s practice takes her experience of remote harsh environments where the landscape shows the passage of time. Thomas’ practice is grounded in his experience of tall mountain ash and weathered granite outcrops. Each artist takes these experiences and integrates them into their practice quite differently. Here & There is a project where Lindy and Tom will share a particular landscape which is significant to their work. In experiencing the other artist’s place of inspiration they will each make a body of work responding to that landscape.
Here & There will broaden and shape their practices through a process of experience and sharing. Challenging them both not just to produce a new body of work but to create an opportunity to transform the way their practices understand landscape.
Here & There will broaden and shape their practices through a process of experience and sharing. Challenging them both not just to produce a new body of work but to create an opportunity to transform the way their practices understand landscape.
a. Thomas O'Hara, Untitled (brooch), 2016, unknown eucalyptus, stainless steel, 90mm x 40mm x 20mm. Photo: Thomas O'Hara
b. Thomas O'Hara, Untitled (object), 2017, unknown eucalyptus, 300mm x 200mm x 220mm. Photo: Thomas O'Hara
c. Thomas O'Hara, Untitled (object), 2017, Oregon, 900mm x 450mm x 450mm. Photo: Thomas O'Hara
d. Lindy McSwan, Vessel Studies, 2014, Cotton Rag, water colour, gouache & graphite, Largest 110 x 55 x 45mm. Photo: Jeremy Dillon
e. Lindy McSwan, Whisper Quiet By New Moon, 2016, Mild steel, 137 x 95 x 85mm. Photo: Matthew Stanton
f. Lindy McSwan, Fragment Vessels, 2016, Mild steel, 195 x 130 x 75mm, 180 x 140 x 65mm. Photo: Jeremy Dillon
b. Thomas O'Hara, Untitled (object), 2017, unknown eucalyptus, 300mm x 200mm x 220mm. Photo: Thomas O'Hara
c. Thomas O'Hara, Untitled (object), 2017, Oregon, 900mm x 450mm x 450mm. Photo: Thomas O'Hara
d. Lindy McSwan, Vessel Studies, 2014, Cotton Rag, water colour, gouache & graphite, Largest 110 x 55 x 45mm. Photo: Jeremy Dillon
e. Lindy McSwan, Whisper Quiet By New Moon, 2016, Mild steel, 137 x 95 x 85mm. Photo: Matthew Stanton
f. Lindy McSwan, Fragment Vessels, 2016, Mild steel, 195 x 130 x 75mm, 180 x 140 x 65mm. Photo: Jeremy Dillon
About the Artist
Lindy McSwan completed a BA (Fine Art) Honours in Gold and Silversmithing at RMIT University in 2014. With the help of an Australia Council for the Arts ArtStart Grant in 2015, Lindy established an independent studio practice taking up residence at 1000 Degrees Glass Studio. In 2016 Lindy’s vessels were included in an exhibition of emerging artists, ‘5 x 7: early career Australian makers’, at Gallery Funaki in Melbourne. Her work has been acquired by the W.E. McMillan Collection, RMIT University and The Bluestone Collection, Melbourne. In late 2017 Lindy will embark on the Bundanon Trust's Artist-in-Residence program in NSW.
Thomas O’Hara began studying Gold and Silversmithing in 2010 at RMIT University Melbourne and completed his Honours there in 2014. After returning to his home town of Canberra, Thomas commenced a PhD at the Australian National University School of Art in 2016. With a trade background as an electrician, Thomas has learnt a controlled systematic way of constructing work. This combined with a strong interest in organic, free formed patterns and objects found in nature, has led to an investigation of objects that play with what is naturally formed and what is constructed.
Lindy McSwan completed a BA (Fine Art) Honours in Gold and Silversmithing at RMIT University in 2014. With the help of an Australia Council for the Arts ArtStart Grant in 2015, Lindy established an independent studio practice taking up residence at 1000 Degrees Glass Studio. In 2016 Lindy’s vessels were included in an exhibition of emerging artists, ‘5 x 7: early career Australian makers’, at Gallery Funaki in Melbourne. Her work has been acquired by the W.E. McMillan Collection, RMIT University and The Bluestone Collection, Melbourne. In late 2017 Lindy will embark on the Bundanon Trust's Artist-in-Residence program in NSW.
Thomas O’Hara began studying Gold and Silversmithing in 2010 at RMIT University Melbourne and completed his Honours there in 2014. After returning to his home town of Canberra, Thomas commenced a PhD at the Australian National University School of Art in 2016. With a trade background as an electrician, Thomas has learnt a controlled systematic way of constructing work. This combined with a strong interest in organic, free formed patterns and objects found in nature, has led to an investigation of objects that play with what is naturally formed and what is constructed.
