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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.

Entirely Valid Action

Chloe Nolan
Jaxon Waterhouse


30 May 2024–30 June 2024

Entirely Valid Action is a new body of collaborative work from artists Chloe Nolan and Jaxon Waterhouse exploring the judicial ‘trial by combat’ between man and woman, as depicted in the 14th century manuscript Fechtbuch penned by German fencing master Hans Talhoffer. Recreating episodes from Ingmar Bergman’s 1974 teleseries, Scenes from a Marriage, this exhibition traces the breakdown of a marriage within a medieval context, culminating in the ‘trial by combat’; a medieval means of separation/divorce.

Entirely Valid Action derives its title from a commonly used phrase in Dungeons and Dragons, which relates to the player’s choice to utilise a ‘free action’ despite its potential consequences as a game strategy. Drawing on this notion; alongside aesthetic motifs found across medieval tradition, vaudevill and LARPing, Entirely Valid Action is an exercise in canvassing the relationship between representation, re-enactment and the real.

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  • Chloe Nolan is an artist based in Melbourne. Her practice oscillates between writing, video, installation and sculpture. The term rumination is central to her practice; functioning as both a psychological definition, but resonating with the pattern of churning, chewing and obsessing over questions surrounding what it means to perform which define her practice. Through collecting and recycling found and personal materials relating to popular culture, Nolan engages audiences in auto-theoretical narratives that propose there is power in vulnerability and exposure of one’s psychological state.
  • Jaxon Waterhouse is an artist/researcher living in the remote Western Desert. Working across academic and contemporary arts frames, his work has been presented nationally and internationally across artist-run and institutional spaces, as exhibitions, performances, lectures, texts and interventions. Recent and upcoming shows include Horizonites (POP, SA), Interstellar Return (Impact) (WTS, NT), Webbing (BLINDSIDE, VIC). Together with his long-time collaborator, Chantelle Mitchell, he is Monash University’s Curator-in-Residence for 2023.