Before Spazju Kreattiv closed its doors due the latest pandemic restrictions, it was hosting the exhibition Variable Depth, Shallow Water by Polish born, Australia-based artist Izabela Pluta. It is now available to view online.
Pluta’s first exhibition in Malta brings together disparate elements comprising handmade contact negatives of unhinged atlases, faux artefacts cast in bronze from the depths of where the Pacific Ocean and East China Sea meet, footage from the vast Australian landscape and neon components.
The artist is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.
This exhibition has been assisted by the Australian government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and supported by a UNSW Art & Design Faculty Research Grant.
Michael Gittings: Future Ruins
February 11 - March 7
Michael Gittings, Novalis Bench, 2021. Stainless steel, copper and enamel, 50 x 190 x 40cm. Courtesy: the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.
Future Ruins is a meditation on our place in nature and our relationship to the environment we seek to control, without ever fully seeking to comprehend either nature itself or the power it has over us.
Using stainless steel as the medium for both industry and nature, the artist seeks to further confound and confuse our role in these processes. The usually organic means of decay has been achieved by hand with industrial machines. The warped and beaten skin of limbs, which are set to devour the once industrial constructions, are themselves a product of similar industrial processes.