Niamh Minogue & Holly Macdonald

GRADATION

Niamh Minogue & Holly Macdonald

15 August - 9 September 2018

c3 Contemporary Art Space

A truly dynamic installation of materials that are both authentic & pure, deceptive & mannered. Holly and Niamh use a fixed grid, which mimics the Cartesian verticals and horizontals of the gallery rectangle. 'Things' are placed within these two frames that are fixed and fluid, float and spill. The installation is active and deliberately bossy, one needs to move in and around the space at all time.

The artists say:

GRADATION speaks to the act of making one material look like another material. The exhibition installation was a gradual process of constructing layers and interacting with the particulars of the site to render some materials visible and others invisible. Each spatial intervention and object offers a surface layer that interrogates its own authenticity and the hierarchy of materials it betrays within the context of personal curated environments, like one’s home, office or studio. In these intimate environments idleness, aspiration and personal preference combine to produce a constellation of things that hint at but ultimately conceal our inner lives.

materials: 

Steel, vinyl, marble, Victorian Ash, pine, timber filler, rubber, plastic, plaster, oxide, felt, aluminium, dye, tissue paper, masking tape, PVA glue, polymer paint, enamel paint, stoneware, earthenware, terracotta, porcelain, glaze, underglaze, ceramic stain, air dry clay, contact, Araldite, styrofoam, polyurethane foam, quartz pebbles

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Work in Progress

Group Exhibition ft.
Caelan Blake
Ryan Hancock
Kari Lee McInneny-McRae
Niamh Minogue

4-28 October 2017

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From the exhibition sheet:

Progress explores the importance of responding with action to materiality. The exhibition asks 'when is a work finished and why?'

Objects of Ideation -

Blurring the lines of creative authority 

Kari Lee McInneny-McRae
Tessy King
Samantha O’Farrell
Niamh Minogue
Caelan Blake

25th August - 6th September 2016

Junior Space, 65 Smith Street Collingwood, Melbourne 

Objects of Ideation features five artists working with the ceramics process who blur the domain of creative authority and individuality. McInneny-McRae, King, O’Farrell, Minogue, Blake are all either RMIT recent graduates or current students. They also share a distinct aesthetic palette. 

The gallery boundary has become a space in which to construct formal, sculptural vignettes about colour, texture, line and plane. Moving around the gallery, it is clear there is no single author, confirmed by the lack of an exhibition list. Whether this was oversight or intentional, the effect is a sense of singular outcome from the hand of many makers.

Here is Niamh Minogue

RMIT Bachelor of Fine Art
Object based Practice - Ceramics
Graduate exhibition 2015

This student's work really thrilled me. A self confessed lover and user of coiling and pinching, her subtly raised and terra sigillata finished forms really delighted.
Niamh Minogue's graduate work is stunning in its range of ceramic process and her mature approach to colour, texture, form and arrangement.

Dusty Pink installation

IRL: Tess, Jess & m8s

Mr Kitly

6 - 22 March 2015

As the title of this exhibition makes clear; this is a matey collection of handmade objects. 

The seemingly ad hoc arrangements reveal perfectly formed vignettes as one roams around the middle gallery of Mr Kitly.

M8s, matches & rhyming names all add to the sense that the maker may indeed be one entity rather than a gathering (irl) of potters, jewellers, photographers, assemblers, painters & drawers.

IRL is a breath of fresh , tangy air & I envy those who had the great fun of plinth & shelf-scaping these raw & engaging objects.

IRL are: Mr Kitly, Jessilla Rogers, Seb Brown, Tessy M King, Gussie Vinall Richardson, Elise Sheehan, Niamh Minogue

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Mr Kitly