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Kings Artist-Run provides a location for contemporary art practice, supporting distinctive experimental projects by artists at all stages of their careers.
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KINGS Artist-Run acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we operate.

We offer our respect to Elders both past and present and extend this offer to all Australian First Nations people.

Refrains

Nancy Downes
Tara O’Conal


03 June 2017–24 June 2017

Refrains composes a shared space of gestural relation between video and sculpture. Through expressions of form we stretch, compress, reconfigure, (manipulate, distort). Refrains uses rhythmic modulations to explore relationships between agency and the environment.

Tara O’Conal is an artist living in Melbourne, she is currently studying a Masters of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts. Nancy Downes specialises in installation, sculpture and painting, using tactile materials with light and space to create immersive, enveloping works. The imagery and materiality in her work provides cues toward the body, and investigates registers of human phenomena. Downes is currently located in Adelaide, and is involved in several local and interstate exhibitions, as well as an artist residency in Japan, throughout 2017.

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  • Tara O’Conal’s practice investigates experiences of perception, working with video, photography and sound in an installation context. Her daily interactions with the world guide the material in the work as she encounters everyday phenomena. Temporal experiences are both staged and documented, exploring the dynamic between the live event and virtual and architectural spaces. Tara’s work offers a quiet and focused perspective, contemplating the sensory nature of existence.