Hannah Quinlivan: Bound By The Sky
Presented by Flinders Lane Gallery
DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Flinders Lane Gallery
37 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC, Australia
DATES
Tue 20 May 11am – 5pm
Wed 21 May 11am – 5pm
Wed 21 May 11am – 5pm
Thu 22 May 11am – 5pm
Fri 23 May 11am – 5pm
Sat 24 May 11am – 5pm
Sat 24 May 1 – 3pm
Exhibition Opening
Bound by the Sky explores humanity’s profound yet understated connections to the natural world, focusing on the fragile interplay between human activity and environmental stability. As a motif the sky is a symbol of boundlessness, but also a site that bears the weight of human accountability.
A series of sculptural installation are suspended from the gallery ceiling, interrupt the boundaries between space and form. Emitting light, cast shadows, and creating a softening of architectural boundaries, her works invite viewers into a series of organic, fluid environments. Wall-mounted works are also present, traversing the hard lines of constructed spaces.
Canberra-based artist-maker Hannah Quinlivan is known for her expansive, intricately woven installations. Using industrial, ubiquitous material such perspex, rubber, aluminium, and steel her undulating, interconnected forms transform urban spaces into dynamic, contemplative environments. Created through processes of manual manipulation and mechanical interventions her sculptural forms function as complex, multifaceted three-dimensional drawings. In Bound By The Sky, Quinlivan combines industrial design processes of cutting and forming with dexterous, manual processes of hand-threading, knitting, and weaving. In doing so, she exhibits immersive, atmospheric works that embody the vast beauty of the atmosphere and its burden as a repository of human impact.
Participants
Hannah Quinlivan
Hannah Quinlivan completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Australian National University (ANU) in 2013 and pursued a PhD at the ANU School of Art & Design. Quinlivan has participated in various international exhibitions. In 2016, she exhibited Spatialisation at Pembroke College during the Time and Temporality conference at Cambridge University and toured with Project Field Trip through Singapore, the Philippines, and Indonesia. She performed Immobilised at the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Berlin in 2017 and held a solo exhibition, Pellucid, at Colorado State University. In 2018, she presented her solo show Impulses, Restraints, Tones at Jan Kossen Contemporary in New York. In 2019, she was part of MINIARTEXTIL in Como, Italy. In Australia, Quinlivan has had solo exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra (2020, 2019, and 2016), the Town Hall Gallery in Melbourne (2019), and the Canberra Museum and Art Gallery (2017). She has been featured in group shows like Contour554 in Canberra (2022 and 2020), Drawn to Experience at Queensland College of Art (2015), MOTION at Bega Valley Regional Gallery (2015), and the Australian Print Triennial at Art Vault Mildura (2015). She has completed public art projects including an artwork for the Canberra Hospital Expansion project, the foyer of 80 Anne St, Brisbane (2022), a sandstone engraving and ceramic print on glass at 275 George Street, Sydney (2021), a site-specific installation for Design Canberra, City Walk (2020), and artworks for the Canberra Light Rail Network stations (2018). Her work is included in collections such as the National Gallery of Australia, The Australian High Commission in Singapore, ACT Legislative Assembly Art Collection, Arthur & Suzie Roe Collection, Justin Art House Museum, Deakin University Art Collection, The Australian National University, KPMG Art Collection, Shire of East Pilbara, Philip Cox Collection, Ormond College Collection, and various private collections.