Five Walls Projects is pleased to present Gen Lown’s exhibition, ‘Monument (3: Bucketsful)’
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The primary principles of the Monument series are exploring the complex relationship that humans have with the natural environment, and the nuanced relations of objects to their different localities. Bucketsful is a continuum of Lown’s practice of examining how contemporary societies perceive and relate to the landscape as environment and idea, often attempting to evaluate the distance that is evident between actual place and person and what helps to form our understanding of spatial reality. She addresses the ways in which people access images and form ideas by ‘playing off’ the immediately apparent sensual environment with the institutional aspects of perception- the social, cultural and historical aspects that feed into perceptual experience.
This exhibition brings together a compilation of detritus as objects, (aesthetically worthy in their own right) as a curated selection from humanities’ disruption of our natural environment and constant cycles of consumerism.Coming from a practice that explores the way people relate to and perceive the natural world, the works address these manufactured relationships by re-purposing industrial and found organic materials. The works address the way that we perceive and value what makes up our landscape, by presenting organic materials that subsequently become objects when removed from their environment and creating a dichotomous dialogue between the synthetic and organic.
The works subvert the immediate perception of these entities through simple actions, adding value to their status as an aesthetic object. The focus of these works is to emphasise the manners in which pieces of our natural and manufactured landscapes are discarded through our interaction with the physical landscape, essentially taking hold of these everyday things and moments, and cataloguing the leftovers of a lifestyle that involves constant consuming. They are neither critical nor seek to abnegate to this culture.
Genevieve Lown is a visual artist based in Melbourne. Her practice is multi-disciplinary, encompassing painting, print media, drawing, sculpture and installation. She studied a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hon) at Sydney College of the Arts and completed her Masters of Arts (Arts Management) in 2015.
Self-described as a contemporary landscape artist her work explores the Australian landscape and how it is perceived by contemporary society. It investigates the myriad of ways in which we perceive images and addresses the dislocated interrelationships between the physical and technological that are created as we navigate through our environment and relate to ideas of nature in physical and ideological terms.
Exhibition details:
Opening Wed October 11th – 6-9pm
continues to October 28th