Dean De Landre & Rachael Rose
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Dean De Landre - PJ’s bookshelf
Pj’s bookshelf builds upon Dean De Landre’s ongoing interest in the intersection between nostalgia, popular culture and the natural world. In this instance, landscapes within the comic form.
All the imagery were appropriated from De Landre’s father-in-law PJ’s extensive French graphic novel collection, through the process, compositions are altered, characters and text removed. The landscapes are re-positioned from their original function as backdrops to become the central focus of the new works.
The series is simultaneously a celebration of personal curated collections and landscape within the comic medium.
Dean has completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours first class) and is currently doing a PhD at Deakin University. Dean has exhibited both interstate and internationally and has been a finalist in the Hornsby, Albany and BAM art prizes. He completed a residency through the LAB program at Platform Arts in 2020 and was selected for the 2021 iteration of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art’s annual graduate show “Hatched”.
Rachael Rose - Hold me I’m Blue
Rachael Rose is a multidisciplinary artist living in the Yarra Valley, Victoria on Wurundjeri Country. Her new body of ceramic work, Hold me I’m Blue is an exploration of the vessel.
“I handbuild each piece in stoneware using a coil technique. My intention is for every vessel to show the traces of my hand - a direct result of feel, and to an extent feeling. I'm more interested in personality than perfection, and as I'm making their different characteristics appear, some more exaggerated than others.”
The curved bodies of the clay forms intentionally contrast with the flat, two-dimensional handles that fan out and frame them. Once fired, The uniform exterior colours are dense and velvety, they swallow the light and meet with a glossy interior. In a playful way these works are illusionary: pretending to be something they are not - fancy, like a peacock - but still just a vessel. It's at this junction that we are presented with the tension between the decorative and the functional.