Lisa Sharp & Wendy Kelly 'unmake / make'

LISA SHARP & WENDY KELLY

FACTORY 49 PARIS POP UP 31 March - 23 April 2016 Opening Wednesday 30 March, 6– 8pm

Factory 49

122 Rue Amelot, Paris 75011 +61 2 9572 9863 factory49@optusnet.com.au factory49.blogspot.com 1– 7pm Thurs – Sat

Lisa Sharp

unmake / make / nouer / dĂŠnouer An exhibition of recent works by two Australian artists. Sharp & Kelly both share a process in which objects are unmade and made again. Kelly disassembles antique foreign language books and reforms them in collages made up of text and thumbed margins. Sharp reduces and refines traditional painting materials in order to weave new forms of painting. The processes of unmaking / making are a means of exploring the materiality, tactility and nuances of meaning in elements that have been dislocated from their usual context.

LISA SHARP These paintings are about painting.

The works in this exhibition are about the material language and presence of painting. Painting is at once action, object and history. Using a reductive and experimental approach to traditional materials and the familiar form of a rectilinear plane on a wall, with every action in the process of its making made visible, these paintings are expressive of the unmaking and making of support, surface and paint.

Wendy Kelly

Through a performative weaving activity during the exhibition, Lisa intends to explore the notions of making/displaying painting by bringing together activity/ object within the space of studio/gallery.

WENDY KELLY Secretive, almost guilty, collections and the dismembering of old books in foreign languages (languages that I do not understand) forms the basis of these collaged works on paper.

The beauty of the patched rhythm of the various texts is rendered unreadable by a veil of torn rice paper, together with watercolour, soil or graphite, and is a gesture towards thoughts concerning the complexity of communication and the perils of misunderstanding.

Lisa Sharp Lisa is a Malaysian-born Australian artist, writer and curator. She currently lives and works in Sydney.

2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), National Art School 2014, 2013 & 2012 Art History & Theory Prizes, National Art School Selected exhibitions Directors’ Show Factory 49 2015 Breaking Space Imperial Hotel National Art School Postgraduate Exhibition National Art School Honours 2015 Library Stairwell Gallery Another Day in Paradise National Art School The Paddock: Looking back at The Field Library Stairwell Gallery To Be Continued (2) Factory 49 Feral, Articulate Project Space (as writer) Stilled Life Sede 2014 National Art School Graduate Exhibition National Art School www.lisa-sharp.tumblr.com Wendy Kelly 2010 PhD Monash University 1993 Graduate Diploma, Monash University, Gippsland School of Art 1978 Diploma of Art and Design / Fine Art, Caulfield Institute of Technology Extensive solo exhibiting history recently including: Conversations Langford 120 Gallery Melbourne 2015 Works on paper Factory 49 Sydney Wendy Kelly Works on paper Ellipsis Gallery Langford 120 Melbourne 2014 Shades of Concealment Langford 120 Gallery Melbourne 2013 Oblique Interpretations Factory 49 Sydney Subverted Surface Factory 49 Sydney 2011 2012 Undercurrent fortyfivedownstairs Melbourne 2010 Along these Lines Monash University Faculty Gallery Many curated and touring exhibitions and competitions since 2000 Published academic articles and presented at conferences in Germany, New Zealand and Australia Received awards, grants commissions and Studio Residencies Represented in public and private Collections www.wendykelly.com.au

1st edition of 50

Š March 2016

series design Pam Aitken