Built

Editorial

We live in built spaces, and often take them for granted, but this new exhibition explores our relationship with built environments and space, and a few abstract concepts along the way.

Built is a selection of pictorial and sculptural works from the State Art Collection, and demonstrates how the artists involved both use and respond to built forms. But it's much more than that - it's also an exploration of concepts such as order and disorder, containment and collapse, history and reality, and how they can be represented in architecture.

Two new major acquisitions presented as part of the exhibition are perfect examples of this. While Callum Morton's Monument #23 Slump (2009) is a challenging collapsed wall, Narelle Jubelin's elegant installation, Soft Shoulder (1994) is both orderly and contained, Both works take very different views on modernism, architecture, and both use objects and space to represent a combination of personal stories, past lives and even the occasional Utopian ideal.

In fact, all of the works on display in Built use architecture in some way to delve into abstraction, interpretation, perception and social and culture connections. Also in the exhibition are photographic works from Belgian artist Lucas Jodogne, and two local artists: Kate McMillan and her series Concepts on the verge of collapse (2003) and Joanna Lamb's Flatland quartet (2006).

For more information, visit: www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/built.asp

Tim Hunter, Citysearch