INDUSTRY ACCESS, CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT, NEW WORK
Shotgun is an awarded opportunity that supports the advancement of selected Tasmanian artist/s through a customised and intensive program of high-level industry access, production assistance and critical engagement. The project began in 2010 as the outcome of a public private collaboration between Contemporary Art Tasmania and Detached Cultural Organisation and in 2017 it grew to include the Museum of Old and New Art.
During the Shotgun 8 program Eloise Kirk worked closely with artists Sally Smart and Lucy Bleach. Kirk also spent time with: gallerist, Daine Singer; curator, Craig Judd; artist, Alex Pittendrigh; woodwork instructor, Chris Bush; and lighting and technical design, Jason James. Shotgun curatorium: Jarrod Rawlins, Michael Bugelli, Kylie Johnson and Michael Edwards. Shotgun 8 has been supported by commissioned texts by Lucy Bleach and Daine Singer.
“While Kirk’s landscapes have always been constructed fantasies, dark maria brings explicitly built structures into her practice. Each of her large plaster-clad sculptures have open backs and fissures through which their empty interiors and ply construction is revealed. These sculptures are an odd hybrid of built and natural forms, with lumpy geological fronts applied to structural supports. ”
Diane Singer – catalogue essay excerpt
