Berney-Gibson
Selected work:
Homecoming Queen
Green Plates
Goat Rodeo
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Green Plates —
Sydney Contemporary
Shown as part of Flock Together group show with (Ames) Yavuz Gallery.
Changing Room, 2022, Solvent Print on Goat Leather, 103 x 0.91cm
Installation view of Bungee Cord, 2022, Solvent Print on Goat Leather, 114 x 95cm, and Changing Room, 2022.
Pressure based printmedia processes are used, pushing imagery into the skin and processing the animal hide further. Through the leather substrate, imagery of man-made structures are rendered organic whilst figurative forms are even more flesh-like. In each composition, layers of muted green fade into textured skin and brilliant metals. Pressure based printmedia processes are used, pushing imagery into the skin and processing the animal hide further. Through the leather substrate, imagery of man-made structures are rendered organic whilst figurative forms are even more flesh-like. In each composition, layers of muted green fade into textured skin and brilliant metals.
Each hide holds memories and feelings of how bodies interacted in space. They are listless and yearning, memories and skins on the verge of connecting. The audience is invited into these quiet elements of homosocial surveillance through their dimensional qualities. Each skin, in its layers of colour and organic grids, speaks the guilty pleasure of looking at something you shouldn’t.
Installation view of Well Mannered (2022), Housewarming (2022), Descent (2021), Bungee Cord (2022)and Changing Room (2022).