Collaborative Backspace exhibition explores STEM in art
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Photo opportunity: Who: Deputy Mayor Daniel Moloney and Ballarat artists Margie Balzic, Zlatko Balazic, Dale Braybrook, Ian Kemp, Kat Pengelly, Ellen Sorensen and Casey Tosh. What: Neo-Gineering Exhibition Opening When: Tomorrow, Saturday 1 September between 2-4pm Where: Backspace Gallery, Huyghue House at Alfred Deakin Place
Seven local artists have come together to celebrate the idea of engineering inspiring and benefiting creativity.
Backspace Gallery’s new exhibition, Neo-Gineering, will see work from artists of varying disciplines, including painting, photography, sculpture, fashion, installation, and media on display from Saturday 1 September.
Over time artists have experimented with tools, materials and physics to create their artwork, with latter generations making the products of engineering and technology the subject of their work.
In this new exhibition, visitors will have the opportunity to experience the immersive colourful animations of children’s art by Margie Balazic, alongside Ian Kemp’s photographs of ancient fossils which have been captured in emulsion and paper, and a flash of light.
Illuminated illustrations and re-purposed skateboards by Casey Tosh brings a street-style installation to the mix, while the soft engineering of Kat Pengelly’s neoprene fashion speaks of the future.
Painter Dale Braybrook bridges ancient and nanoengineering in his work, Ellen Sorensen takes visitors on a journey through old and new sounds, and Zlatko Balazic explores diverse outcomes of combining light and sound through his multiple kinetic artworks.
This exhibition supports STEM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics), a component of the Creative City Strategy.
The Creative City Strategy will specifically focus on promoting and growing not just the traditional arts, but other forms of creative industries such as those featured in this exhibition.
Neo-Gineering showcases Ballarat’s artists as early adopters of the new world, highlighting how their skills can help elevate Ballarat to the status of Australia’s leading creative city.