Adele Warner, Drew Holland, Maya Man (US), Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, Robert Schmitt & Wade Kelly

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Opening on the 8th of March, ‘Neither Dream, Nor Delusion’, curated by Jarryd Lynagh draws together a swathe of artists, writers, and makers whose practices revolve around the human experience of the Internet and the ways in which the navigation of this realm translate into visual expression. Included in the exhibition are works from Adele Warner, Drew Holland, Maya Man (US), Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, Robert Schmitt & Wade Kelly.

Adele Warner reflects upon ideas of the para-social, fame and its encompassing psychological effects through her painting ‘LATTER NIGHT’. Drew Holland presents a series of his solvent transfer assemblage pieces. Maya Man (US) is exhibiting her new body of work ‘(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes’ encompassing three prints, a browser based work and subsequent video.Three pieces have been selected from Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer’s ‘Fragile Fantasy’ collection of works. A newly commissioned animation piece by the Melbourne based Robert Schmitt will be the first time his works have been formally presented within a gallery context. Two large format paintings by Wade Kelly offer a humorous and cynical inner dialogue with their screen printed text contrasted by abstracted spray painting.

Alongside the pieces on display, publications which heavily informed the rationale and thinking behind the themes of the show will be presented as tools to expand upon the viewing experience. Exhibition resource collaborators include Filip Kostic (US), Mindy Seu (US) & Dr. Omar Kholeif (UAE).

The exhibition’s title ‘Neither Dream, Nor Delusion’ alludes to the surreal and transcendental space in which the source material of the exhibition finds itself. A plane of para-social relationships, avatars, myth-making, contemporary merchants, and transhumanism in an infinite expanse we navigate as ‘Internet Explorers’.