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Live Lanes - By George!

Peloton : Albion Place

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With works from four of Peloton Gallery’s artists, Albion Place continues to deliver new art in the heart of the city

Curator: Claire Taylor
Artists: Michele Zarro, Julia Davis, Lisa Jones, Lisa Andrew

Michelle Zarro

Psychometry

Michele Zarro's installation spans the area of Albion Place west of the large doorways that divide the laneway in two.  Horizontal bands of colour, and an interplay of lines running intermittently between and extending through the lightboxes, become the performative component of Zarro's strategy, linking the wall, the lightboxes and the lane to generate a cohesive yet dynamic installation.

Michele Zarro Suitcases 00, 2006, mixed media, dimensions variable. Photo: Pete Endersby
Michele Zarro deRANGe(d), 2007, mixed media, dimensions variable. Photo: Pete Endersby

Lisa Jones

Body Maps

Much of Lisa Jones recent work “evokes the corporeal through tactile, elaborate forms … depicting interior spaces rendered visible by medical technologies.”  For this laneways project, Lisa Jones is interested in working with the metaphor of the city as a living body.  Presenting a series of works called Body Maps, these works trace nerves, veins and other anatomical structures in the human body, in much the same way a cartographer traces streets and rivers running through the city.  With reflection and repetition the artist transforms these images into beautiful, ornate structures suspended in the lightboxes.

Curator: Claire Taylor ©2008

Lisa Jones Body Map, laser-cut acrylic and paper, 95 x 95 cm

Lisa Andrew

Seven

Lisa Andrew’s portraits are based on images of strong characters in films, while others are drawn from literature, others still taken from the media.  What they have in common is a tension between anonymity and familiarity.  Her works are installed in the group of lightboxes at the George St end of Albion Place, where the laneway is most peopled. To regular passers-by, over time, these portraits will shift from images of seemingly unfamiliar faces to ones that they instantly recognise. 

Lisa Andrew Scout, 2006, interfacing, pins, wood, 200 x 200 cm ABN Amro, 2006, finalist.   Courtesy of the artist and Conny Dietzshold Gallery, Sydney | Cologne
Lisa Andrew I Fall to Pieces, 2002, interfacing, pins, 200 x 200 cm Helen Lempriere Travelling Scholarship, 2002, finalist. Courtesy of the artist and Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney | Cologne

Julia Davis

In Transit

This site-specific work continues Julia Davis’ practice which explores the viewers reading of space and how it underpins our sense of self and place.  An interplay of reflections manifests in the surface of the work and draws the surrounding space and the viewer into the collective image. Davis is interested in the idea of creating a pause or a clearing of space so that we may re-experience where we are.

Julia Davis Meniscii 2007, polished stainless steel, 7 x 100 x 1500 cm Installation: Werribee Park, VIC, Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award, 2007, winner
Detail of Julia Davis Meniscii, 2007, polished stainless steel, 7 x 100 x 1500 cm Installation: Werribee Park, VIC, Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award, 2007, winner