“Tarp West Space/HMS”
Henry Jock Walker
11 Apr → 11 May 2014
From May 2013 to January 2014, tarpspace and Henry’s Mobile Studio (HMS) journeyed over 20 000km around Australia.
tarpspace is a mobile artist-run initiative, co-founded and co-directed in Adelaide by Jessie Lumb, Bradley Lay and Henry Jock Walker. It extends the physical and conceptual framework of an art space. It consists of a blue tarpaulin, that can be constructed at it’s most basic into a 3 x 3 x 3 metre cube.
Tarp West Space is an exhibition curated by Jessie Lumb of works documenting and extending the main tarpspace events of 2013: Movement Snare, Andrew Treloar, Broome, WA; Sing a Song of a Map When a Little Bird Told Me Macaroni, Noriko Nakamura, Cairns, QLD; The Beacon, Studio 85, Murwillumbah, NSW; The Equatorial Arrangement (part one), Therese keogh, Ouyen, VIC; Tarp Royal Coronation TT 4 TS, Team Textiles, Launceston, TAS. There will also be a live-feed of Louise Kenward’s tarpspace project Bexhill to Bexhill, Bexhill, NSW, running daily April 23-26.
Henry’s Mobile Studio is a portable studio/workshop/painting machine, it has collaborated with many artists to create painterly workshops, installations and happenings while treating the whole nation as a platform for making. The Toyota Hiace ‘Henrynetti’ van has been the all-in-one home, studio, venue and carrier for the project.
Henry's Mobile Studio has been commissioned and developed through Next Wave’s Kickstart program for Next Wave Festival 2014. HMS (West Space) is assisted by the Helpmann Academy Project Grant.
Henry Jock Walker is a Tarntanya/Adelaide based artists, surfer, sewer, painter, performer and printmaker. He works in a state of flow, seeking intergenerational community and collaborative projects, mentoring and being mentored. This connective tissue of making with others is what builds and replenishes his belief in art as practice of optimism.