Julia Crabtree and William Evans : Antonio Bay

7 Jun-14 Sep 2014

Overview

Following six months as the Nina Stewart Artists-in-Residence in the SLG’s Outset Artists’ Flat, Julia Crabtree and William Evans present an unfurling installation across the first floor galleries, which continues their examination of the relationship between the body and the screen. Their work references the high artifice of B-movies and the spatial logic of cartoon physics as part of an ongoing investigation into how romanticised and highly masculine filmic tropes both seduce and repulse the viewer. As forms and figures are put through varying stages of virtual and material transformation, theatrical atmospheric smoke is flattened onto carpet and horizon lines are rendered as abstract sculptures.