• Kristen Brownfield

  • jemi gale

  • Audrey Tan

  • Jess Tan

  • Clare Wohlnick

an invitation to dance

exhibition


offsite


22 Nov – 21 Dec 2024

18:00–17:00

Cool Change and PS Art Space are pleased to present an invitation to dance, a group exhibition featuring artworks by Kristen Brownfield, jemi gale, Audrey Tan, Jess Tan, and Clare Wohlnick.

Initiated by Jess Tan, the exhibition privileges process-led art practices that consider alternatives to excessive material consumption while minimising emphasis on extractive value and outcome.

Through pottering—embodied but unfocused thinking and working that playfully engages with and reassembles matter—divergences occur in a generative space. Lingering thoughts evolve and are translated into material outputs, formed by spending time in the studio, processing, reorganising, fiddling, and simply combining things to see what happens.

Such a working methodology challenges late capitalism’s reliance on efficiency and productivity to establish an alternative form of labour production through varied artistic approaches to slowness, collection, accumulation, re-use, and re-configuration.

an invitation to dance moves through human, non-human, and emotional registers to make meaning and invites us to contemplate alternate ways of moving through the world, with new intentionality around time, what we value, and how we consume resources.

Gallery 1

Exhibition opening:
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Friday, 22 November 2024
With loose ,, sparkling

Exhibition duration:
23 November – 21 December 2024

CC × PS:
Level 1 (PS Art Space)
22 Pakenham Street
Fremantle WA 6160

Sunday – Monday • Closed
Tuesday – Friday • 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday • 12:00 – 4:00 PM
Unless otherwise specified

Please note: PS Art Space’s upstairs gallery is only accessible by a two-flight staircase; no lift access is available.

Kristen Brownfield, jemi gale, Audrey Tan, Jess Tan, and Clare Wohlnick: Work in progress, 2024. Digital collage, dimensions variable.

Kristen Brownfield is an artist based in Boorloo/Perth who grew up on Mooro Noongar Boodjar. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) from Edith Cowan University and a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Honours) from RMIT University. Kristen uses her art practice to remain curious about the world around her and, more broadly, how we relate to the natural environment. Her work unfolds through writing, observing, listening, and finding connections. It is often temporal in nature or site-related, composed of gleaned materials, sound or video samples, writing, drawing, and images. Recent projects include repackaged at Pig Melon, an artist residency at the Commonwealth of New Bayswater Post Office, and dust and rocks at Gotham Studios’ Peek-a-boo Gallery.

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jemi gale makes paintings and songs. She performs with the performance art group Dandd and the screaming choir Attention Shoppers. Her recent solo and collaborative exhibitions include every painting has a friend (Mary Cherry, Melbourne, 2024); whole fish (FELTspace, Adelaide, 2023); nothing is more important than hanging out (Outer Space, Brisbane, 2022); donut king (paintings about love) (Suite7a, Sydney, 2022); stick head here (Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, 2022); and drowning curse (TCB, Melbourne, 2021). Her recent group exhibitions include Loose Knot Chorus organised by Suite7a (Petersham Town Hall, Sydney, 2023); Then Sharply Turns (Conners Conners, Melbourne, 2023); Kiss My Art organised by Aretha Brown (Schoolhouse Studios, Melbourne, 2022); Choose Happiness curated by Serena Bentley (Murray Art Museum, Albury, 2021); such structures might not be predeterminable organised by Marian Tubbs (Byron School of Art, Mullumbimby, 2021); and Slime & Ashes curated by Matthew Harris (West Space, Melbourne, 2020).

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Audrey Tan is an artist and jeweller living in Naarm/Melbourne via Boorloo/Perth. Working across drawing, bricolage, metalsmithing, and gardening, she is specifically interested in the entanglements that exist between people and objects and how objects of adornment can function as absorbers of energy and markers of time, site, and self. Recent projects include Salt Water Buffet (Alta Forma, 2024); triple power of plants with Seb Temple and Jess Tan (Goolugatup Gallery, 2023); and I’m writing this in case there’s a spell to make me forget with John Brooks (Assembly Point, 2023).

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Jess Tan is an artist currently based in Boorloo. Her associative drawing practice forms a biomorphic language that expands into sculpture, collage, and site-specific installations. Led by material curiosity, she follows an inquiry into how materials morph through ongoing reconfiguration and can generate unfamiliar ways of knowing and understanding through their affective capacities. Recent exhibitions include gleam with Luisa Hansal (Lightworks, 2024); weird trapped gas for Gut Feeling with Emma Buswell and Bruno Booth (sweet pea, 2024); triple power of plants with Audrey Tan and Seb Temple (Goolugatup Gallery, 2023); and a stitch is a wish for renewal (the Commonwealth of New Bayswater Post Office, 2023). Jess operates a clothing regeneration service called digesting as an extension of her art practice. She is represented by sweet pea.

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Clare Wohlnick is an artist and arts facilitator/educator based in Boorloo/Perth. Working within an interdisciplinary art practice, she has recently been experimenting with traditional textile techniques by felting raw wool and towels. Clare works creatively through the facilitation of knowledge exchange and community workshops and has exhibited widely at galleries such as Fremantle Arts Centre, Slopes, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Caves, Pig Melon, and Cool Change. She has also participated in sound performances at Gertrude Contemporary and the Berlin Biennale.

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