Lindsay Webb - Forest for the trees
23 October - 3 November 2024
G1
Opening Night
Friday 25 October | 6 - 8pm
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Artist Bio
Lindsay Webb (1966 - Goulburn Australia) is an interdisciplinary artist currently living (since August 2024) in rural NSW after extended periods in Japan and Germany. Following a career in Architecture (1995 -2013), his projects now combine photomedia images and video, field recordings, synthesised-sound-compositions and interactive installations that are conceived to examine how we - humans - perceive and operate in the environment.
Webb collaborative productions as Lull Studio have been exhibited regularly around the world including highlights at the inaugural Big Anxiety Festival Sydney 2017. Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2022 Japan. Yokohama Triennale, 2020. 17th Athens Digital Art Festival. Best of Zebra Poetry Film Festival Berlin 2021, Art Machines 2, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong 2021 and, Open Site 6, Tokyo Arts and Space 2021.
Forest for the trees
Forest for the trees is an ongoing project exploring the lived experience within treed spaces. It is a compound view opening a series of complex relationships with the world. The world of plants, animals and fungi imploring us as their estranged partner to re-enter their (our) domain.
The tree as a heroic figure - stoic, individual, magnificent - is a common trope of landscape painting and photography. Forest for the trees eschews this reading by adopting a preference for the field condition - the ecosystem is paramount. Here viewers observe not any individual or exemplary specimen, but are invited to enter an immersive and beguiling complexity.
The emergent spaces in Forest for the trees are immediately recognisable yet simultaneously strange and remote, an illusionary space where we expose something not explained.
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: Route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway Ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
