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ART PACKS
5 + 5 (Part One)
Curated by Anoushka Sansom
10 - 19 October 2024
5+5 is a view into the future, showcasing ten talented early-career artists that represent the next generation of Australian contemporary art.
Fast-paced and experimental in nature, the exhibition consists of ten mini-solo shows across the month of October presented in two iterations.
Part of Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios’ Emerging Artists Program.
SCARLETT STOKOE
Scarlett Stokoe (b. 2002) is a multidisciplinary Artist, currently working on creating her own "odd of all oddities the earth and sea has ever produced", forming and combining organisms to construct her own species. She takes inspiration from nature, in particular, Australian Native Flora and Sea Life. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture at the National Art School.
In the last couple of years, Stokoe has had the opportunity to exhibit throughout Sydney, Melbourne, & Adelaide. Her most recent achievement is becoming a finalist in the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize at the South Australian Museum.
I am known to daydream too much.
I have always imagined a dream world, a world of my obsessions, a place where nothing exists but nature. I want to invite people into my un-real world of wonder, curiosity, and becoming. When I encounter nature, I enter a fairy tale, the real-world drifts away. I lose focus on anything else. I collect. I photograph. I analyse. And I admire. I zoom in through a photographic lens, capturing microscopic elements of nature. Simultaneously I collect organic, textile and unique objects, at second-hand shops and in nature. The segments then evolve into creatures of the unknown that retains the truth of nature.
My Creatures bring to life my un-real world. They transform my fairy-tale into reality. They allow me to create a space that alike nature can be “sometimes comforting, sometimes terrifying, sometimes indifferent”
They have become my new dream world.
TAMARA ELKINS
Tamara Elkins (b. 1987 Wollongong/Dharawal) completed her Diploma of Fine Arts at TAFE Wollongong, followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours at University of New South Wales Art and Design.
Working in the mediums of performance, installation, video and textiles, Elkins’ current work looks at the role of narrative and mythmaking in forming our personal identities. She utilises fragments from popular culture, combining them to restage new narratives and myths.
Elkins has exhibited with Wollongong City Gallery, Archive_, Airspace and Sydenham International. In 2024 she curated and exhibited in History Doesn’t Repeat it Rhymes, at Sydenham International.
The Mountain
In this film a miniaturised mountain landscape is inhabited by an anthropomorphised mountain who decides to uproot themselves after a millennium, shedding its outer layer to reveal a crystallised body. The film weaves an amalgam of personal memories, popular culture and a golden age of cinema aesthetic to form a contemporary myth.
My research for this project began by looking at the way that walking through an environment effects psychological change and subsequently evolved during my time in Scotland. My focus became about seeing the aliveness of the Scottish landscape, as a fertile ground for the development of contemporary myth and personal narrative. In essence the work became about transitions in life and the way in which our environment influences those transitions emotionally, psychologically and physically.
With the assistance of the Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award from Creative Scotland and Edinburgh City Council I was able to execute the production of the work and to film it in Edinburgh.
Costume Design, Choreography, Mountain design, Text, Dramaturgy by Tamara Elkins
Cinamatography, Lighting and Editing by Marta Maluva
Studio Technician, Sound design and Music Production by Eric M. Hoenig
Voice by Phoebe Angel
Voice recording by Chris Finn
Production Assistance by Mark Reilly and Alexandra Wilson
ELYSIA VERNIS LING
Elysia Vernis Ling is an emerging Asian Australian interdisciplinary artist living and practicing on Gadigal Land/Sydney. She is currently completing her BFA as a Painting major at the National Art School.
With her background in fashion design and floristry, Ling identifies strongly as an aesthete whose practice is ever evolving and encompasses drawing, painting, floristry, textiles, photography, and more recently performance and video art. Investigating and contemplating the human experience through performance and chance processes are central to the artist’s interrogation of contemporary themes including memory and vulnerability, sustainability - specifically the novelty and ethics of material consumption, and more recently the universal experiences of women and (lack thereof) women's rights.
And though I perish daily, I shall not be moved
Single Channel Video, 49:22 minutes
Inspired by both personal experiences and historical and contemporary issues regarding women’s bodily autonomy and rights, and societal expectations projected onto women, artist Elysia Vernis Ling seeks to interrogate and ask audiences what constitutes as being a woman in her performance work And though I perish daily, I shall not be moved.
In the first iteration of the performance which the artist conceptualized and performed as her final body of work for Drawing at the National Art School, she invited the general public and NAS community to not only participate in the performance but to help source and contribute props for it. For the performance, audience members actively participated by ‘dressing’ the artist in an array of typically feminine items against the artist’s unsettling remix of Aqua’s infamous single ‘Barbie Girl’. The audio features an extensive list of descriptors and phrases used against women in day-to-day life. For each word being said, a member of the audience was given the opportunity to choose any of the props displayed to ‘dress’ the artist however they wished.
JESSE HERIOT
Jesse Heriot is a Sydney-based emerging artist whose primary discipline is in the world of illustration and painting. In her final year in a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Animation), Jesse’s unique style spreads across multiple mediums.
As a daydreamer herself, Jesse invites viewers to get lost in a dizzying world of make-believe. Featured most notably in the 2023 Mosman Art Prize as the youngest finalist of that year, Jesse has been exhibited and received awards across Sydney's Northern Beaches, showcasing her bright and dynamic body of work. Collecting memories and experiences from childhood and adolescence, Jesse aims to create bizarre and fantastical worlds within her work, featuring the landscape of Sydney as her main playground.
My exhibition is an exploration of my body of work, all completed from the ages of 17-19. My work explores the strange time between childhood and adulthood, tip-toeing the line between the two. Strange, bright and colourful, reminiscent children’s storybooks, interwoven with personal stories and experiences growing up in Sydney. My practice aims to preserve the childlike imagination from when we were young, that people are encouraged to leave behind.
The collection invites viewers to engage with the vivid colours and imaginative scenes, encouraging them to reflect on their own journeys and the importance of preserving childlike wonder in the face of growing up. This body of work serves as both a celebration of creativity and a poignant reminder of the imaginative spirit that often gets left behind as we navigate the complexities of adulthood.
NIOKA LOWE-BRENNAN
I am a Dunghutti/Gomeroi woman who grew up as an art-loving kid. After exploring other paths, I rediscovered my passion for art while working at Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative. Surrounded by incredible paintings every day, I felt a strong pull to pick up a brush again, and once I did, I was hooked. My artwork is deeply inspired by dreams of being on country, immersed in a pristine untouched landscape. This connection to nature and culture drives the creativity behind my work.
This exhibition features works painted in the last two years, inspired by nature and the connection Aboriginal people, particularly women, have to it. I dream of a time prior to colonisation when the land was lush and people spent time just being without the weight of what being an adult requires today.
Anoushka Sansom
5+5 Curator
Anoushka Sansom is a Queer, trans, curator & artist of Ashkenazi and Mizrahi heritage.
Anoushka has a strong commitment to bringing diverse voices to the fore. Based in São Paulo for many years, she was the founder and curator of Arte das Quebradas - a cultural initiative that worked with Brazilian artists from low-income backgrounds to foster their careers and provide them with the means to present their work to broad audiences. Since 2018, Anoushka has provided curatorial support to Muruwari artist, Dr Virginia Keft, on the artist's exhibitions and projects. The most recent of these was an exhibition and community activation project at WayOut Artspace, Kandos, entitled, waalarrinji (long-time-now), in January 2024.
Her forthcoming project, Queer Materials, will present LGBTQIA+ textile artists that narrate Queer experiences through their practices at Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios as part of the Gallery's Mardi Gras Program.
Anoushka began working at Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios in 2023. She holds a Master of Art Curating from the University of Sydney, a Master of Arts from University of New England and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Wollongong.
