curated by megan evans
Sometimes you want to lift peoples up. And shake them. And kiss them celebrates two artists who have been friends and colleagues for several decades and presents a continuing dialogue between their respective studio practices.
Both artists independently explore intimate topographies of love, memory and history. These explorations raise questions of how certain objects, notions and connections might exist outside of human understanding and how the gaps between intention and execution and between execution and reception leave marks and traces over time.
The title of the show speaks of an aspiration to share artwork that moves others.
Trudy Clutterbok
Trudy Clutterbok makes space for people who have complicated feelings about themselves and life. She does this by making works on paper as part of her studio practice and in the setting of her psychoanalytic practice. Since 1984 she has made and shown drawings, paintings and super 8 films. Since 2020 she has also focused on printmaking. She recently won the Michael Beazer Works on Paper prize.
Sal Cooper
Sal Cooper is a multidisciplinary visual artist whose practice spans independent filmmaking, hand-drawn and stop-motion animation, installation and performance events. Her work centres on the animation of objects and drawings to explore the latent vitality of the world around us and consider how things might exist beyond human perception or understanding. Her collaborative work has given rise to a body of commissioned material that includes major theatrical/performance works, concert pieces and music videos as well as short films. While the integration of music within the context of moving image is a central part of her practice, Sal’s artistic output also includes expanded drawing works and sculptural pieces which she exhibits in regular solo and group shows. She has been selected as a finalist in a number of significant art prizes.
Image: Detail from monotype ‘Listen’ by Trudy Clutterbok. Photo Sal Cooper.
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