The Thousands

If you open your eyes, there’s often something enthralling in the inane or the everyday. Like the way the rough guys down the street ‘carefully’ place junk on the curb and it turns into a full blown installation work every time hard rubbish collection comes around. Or the way noxious weeds interweave themselves with that shitty stobie pole that you almost always hit when you pull in your driveway on your pushie. Or that television on the front lawn… seriously what in the shit is that doing there? Probably being accidentally beautiful.

Consider this a disclaimer. I know nothing about art at all but when I see huge rocks with some kind of electrical cabling running into or out of them which may or may not be connected to some kind of element, I think, ‘that’s pretty cool’. And look left! Yep, rocks with electrical cabling. And when I see Akira Akira’s name at an upcoming exhibition I also think the same because Akira’s art has always enthralled me despite my plebeian ways.

‘Still Life Still’ is a group exhibition featuring the works of Akira Akira, Wendy Fairclough, and Nicholas Folland, and is largely, but not exclusively, concerned with the everyday and the found. Akira Akira continues in the vein of merging found objects with constructions to form his sculptures. Wendy Fairclough creates the everyday but with a novel approach using the most delicate of materials, glass. And Nicholas Folland – responsible for the cabled boulders with hot rod elements – explores the potential failure in everyday activities: like that time you did nail the stobie pole on your way home.