Notes on Reciprocity | Group Exhibition

Chrystal Rimmer, Laura de Carteret, Sibylla Robertson, Tango Conway & Hugh Crowley

Stanley Street Gallery is delighted to present Notes on Reciprocity, a group show curated by Claire de Carteret. Drawing from the text ‘on weaving a basket’ by anthropologist Tim Ingold and lyrics from Lauryn Hill’s album, ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’, the exhibition is interested in the relationship that grows from spending quality time with material.

It explores mutuality in processes of art making where, “mind is not above, nor nature below; if we ask where mind is, it is in the weave of the surface itself.” In this sense the exhibition brings attention to how ideas don’t always happen in our heads, they are not strictly cognitive; intuition and serendipity are precious forces and we are situated in an ecology of material and the possibility of reciprocity in this is beautiful.

“For makers have to work in a world that does not stand still until the job is completed, and with materials that have properties of their own and are not necessarily predisposed to fall into the shapes required of them, let alone stay in them indefinitely” – Ingold

Opening celebration: Friday 23 August, 6-8pm