CURRENT PRESENTS:

Opening night:
Thursday 29th October 6-9pm
Exhibition continues:
Sat 30th - 
Open Thurs - Sun 12-5 pm. 



i'm just like a bag of soil digs into how experiential knowledge gained whilst gardening might translate into an embodied, relational practice with material. Drawing from permaculture philosophies, the work consists of biomorphic sculptural assemblages made from biodegradable and reclaimed matter, often collected from loved ones gardens. It thinks-through soil regeneration, alternative builds, composting, seed saving and edible weeds as generative starting points for making. i'm just like a bag of soil hopes to emphasize abundance and deepen ways of interacting with ecologies that are cyclical, reciprocal and curious..

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‘i’m just like a bag of soil’ by Erin Ginty

ARTIST BIO

Erin Ginty’s practice dwells within more-than-human relations and underground soils: swampy sites where the natural and urban tangle together. Ginty explores these fields through sculpture and installation, working with raw and fired clays, glass found on walks, studio leftovers and soupy, breathing video. Curious towards regenerative ecologies, she often breaks down materials to re-use or transform them, echoing actions learnt whilst gardening in her backyard. By negotiating with uncertainty, co-becoming and continually sifting her hands through muddy matter, Ginty's practice hopes to reach embodied, responsive ways of knowing.

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Reading group on the 8th of Nov (Sunday) around 3-5pm

SATURDAY 03 OCTOBER 2-4 PM. 

CURRENT Gallery are really excited to invite you to a hand-on workshop together with exhibiting artists Jen Datu and Colin Villapa. In the workshop you will learn about the process of making an object into a pendant relic and make one yourself. The artists kindly request you to bring 1 personal keepsake (small, max palm-size and heat proof), all other materials will be provided.

Participants will be guided through soldering a pendant out of a small object, transforming it into a relic. Participants will learn copperfoiling,
burnishing and soft soldering techniques.

Participants are invited to bring along a personal relic of their own, a beloved “junk” keepsake. Keeping in mind that you will be applying hot solder to your keepsake, it must be heat proof.

While making the pendant, participants will be asked to consider their
relationship to mundane objects or trash, the sentimentality assigned to them, and the stories they hold as a means of personal mythmaking in everyday life.


Workshop Runsheet:

2 minutes Acknowledgement of country and introduction to workshop

30 minutes Copperfoiling and burnishing

30 minutes Fluxing and tinning

15 MINUTES BREAK

30 minutes Soldering, washing flux and polishing

15 minutes If comfortable, participants are invited to share the mythos of their relic

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