Reverse Archaeologies
The act of casting site specific material, historic plaques, monuments, and architectural surfaces in clay, plaster, silicon, glass, metal, bronze & brick carries significant social and cultural meaning. By replicating structures in tangible materials, we preserve their memory and history for future generations.
Here in reverse, a narrative is concealed, transferred into a coded surface or becomes a sculptural object. The process of casting itself represents a form of homage and reverence to the original structure or object, paying tribute to its cultural and historical memory.
Artists: Orson Heidrich, Jesse Hogan, Kate Newby, Byron Bourke
Technical, Academic & Curatorial Support By: Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Felix McNamara, Associate Prof. Jane Gavan (SCA), Dr. Michael Mossman
Graphic + Publication Design: Paul Mylecharane for Common Room.editions
Sponsorship: The Brick Pit, Keane Ceramics
Dialogues between Art & Architecture, Material Histories, Site Specificity and Post Monumentalism
Saturday 3 August, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Venue: Tin Sheds Gallery
Join the project artists and panelists Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Felix McNamara, Associate Prof. Jane Gavan SCA, & Dr. Michael Mossman for a discussion on various issues surrounding the application of architectural practice and artistic theory in the acknowledgement of art spaces as sites of intersecting discourse, cultural memory, digital technologies, and approaches to historical materiality in building and sculpture.
Leading architects, art academics and creative practitioners will discuss the ongoing impacts of new technology on artistic and architectural practice as well as the future prospect for art spaces as sites of cultural development and conceptual exchange. Join us as we explore the challenges in contemporary art and its relationship to architectural practices.
Thursday 15 August, 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Venue: Tin Sheds Gallery
In this workshop participants will join exhibition artist Jesse Hogan (Associate Professor of Painting - Tokyo University of the Arts) on a walk around the University of Sydney campus in search of plaques and architectural forms, using bags of clay provided by Keane Ceramics - to take cast impressions of such found formations. Hogan will instruct participants on the method used in his ‘Reverse Histories’ exhibition works, discussing the ideas inherent in the process, and the material exploration in the act of pressing and casting. The group will uncover their own insights and understanding of the process as we return to the gallery to observe the workshop sculptures alongside the other samples and fragments on display. Participants will have the opportunity to take their fresh casts home with them or leave them with the artist to be fired and available for pick up at a later date during the exhibition duration.
Tin Sheds Gallery acknowledges the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, upon whose ancestral lands our exhibitions take place. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge of these lands, waterways and Country.
Top image: Reverse Archaeologies, Hogan & Bourke, 2023. Tin Sheds view from City Road
Bottom image: Reverse Histories, Cast #7, 2023, Jesse Hogan. Image courtesy the artist