“Rainbow Eaters”
Nick Selenitsch, Kirra Jamison, Paul Yore and Valentina Palonen
20 Apr → 12 May 2012
Rainbow Eaters brings together the work of four contemporary artists who use emphatic and flamboyant combinations of colour to create talismanic imagery.
Although stridently unique in their approach, colour is an intuitive and foundational aspect of practice for each artist in Rainbow Eaters, and it is through colour that these artists explore subjective understandings of spirituality.
Nick Selenitsch, Kirra Jamison, Paul Yore and Valentina Palonen each have a sense of ritual in their making process, intuitively compiling colour into discordant and lurid arrangements to create these sacralised objects. Some fetishise the synthetic hyper-colour of mass-produced objects, in doing so creating strange objects of reverence, while others employ obsessive, ritualistic processes to produce vibrant, playful and at times disconcerting psychotropic artifacts.
This exhibition is supported by a Janet Holmes à Court Artist Grant. The Janet Holmes à Court Artist Grant is a NAVA initiative, made possible through the generous sponsorship of Janet Holmes à Court and the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.
Nick Selenitsch is a Naarm/Melbourne based artists with Honours in Fine Art (Painting) from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Masters in Cultural Material Conservation from the University of Melbourne.
Kirra Jamison
Paul Yore’s work engages with the histories of religious art and ritual, queer identity, pop-culture and neo-liberal capitalism, recasting a vast array of found images, materials and texts into sexually and politically loaded tableaux and assemblages which celebrate hybrid and fluid identities, unstable and contradictory meanings, and the glowing horizon of queer worldmaking.
Valentina Palonen