Artists:
Jacob Clerke , Fei Gao, Caoife Power and Nani Graddon

Exhibition dates:
3rd - 8th June - Open 12-7pm
Thursday 3rd June 5-7pm - Opening night

'Body Language' looks at the ways culture, language and failure are interlinked with our bodies.

Through each of Jacob Clerke, Fei Gao, Caoife Power and Nani Graddon’s works, aggregate processes draw out parallels within our art: its density, texture, repetition, time, materiality, and its connection with our bodies as we make.

For the purpose of this exhibition ‘Body Language’ acknowledges that we are surrounded by cultural-political markers that hold the safety, health, identity and class of our bodies, often outside of our control.

This exhibition opens a space for vulnerable attentiveness with these concerns, with unpredictable works that seek to expose earnest moments essential to understanding the body and its divergence.

Kudos Offsite allows UNSW Art & Design students, alumni and emerging artists the opportunity to realise an engaging and experimental arts project. Providing an innovative offsite program Kudos aims to be the bridge between emerging practitioners and the wider arts community.


Artists:

Jacob Clerke’s practice is concerned with the intersection of intuition and process, focusing on their relationship with the body through rapid iteration of concept and application. Jacob is currently a UNSW BFA/BA Student with discipline in painting, drawing, sculpture, performance and creative writing. He was nominated for the 2020 Tim Olsen drawing prize.

Fei’s practice is a continuous process of deconstruction and hacking. Exploring the intersection of gaming culture, queerness, characters and urban landscapes. Recently, Fei is interested in how nostalgia and personal relationships with broken architecture and debris create imaginative worlds.

Nani Graddon resides on Gadigal land in the Eora nation and is currently undertaking her honors year at UNSW art and design. She works across a variety of mediums in an attempt to negotiate contemporary Australian society and her place within it.
She is currently interested in objects and information, specifically how they are displayed within Sydney’s cultural institutions. Her work aims to investigate the long-standing western centric archive that knowledge is kept within.

Caoife Power’s painting and writing practice is driven by concepts of language, ecology and embodiment. Drawing from personal experiences of convalescence, her work observes multi-sensory perceptions of our environment that speak to the tensions in contemporary life, and the interrelation between the body and the outside world as processes for healing. She has a B Fine Arts (First Class Honours) RMIT and Fine Arts/Arts (Creative Writing) UNSW. She recently created Bus Projects ‘Out of Bounds’ podcast series and has exhibited interstate across Australia.