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Five Walls Projects, Footscray
Simon Rankin & Dale Nason
July 19th – August 5th, 2023
Simon Rankin and Dale Nason combine individual works in a gallery installation examining the present moment of supply & demand.
Simon’s work digs into a fresh set of visual exploration and production constraints. This show sees Simon manufacturing large scale fabric pieces produced across the print shop and sewing room, incorporating various printmaking and machine stitching techniques. Non-representational collage processes persist, but digital and industrially produced imagery and patterning have been introduced. Operating under the cloud of the algorithm and machine learning, Simon embraces the idea of error and unexpected outcome in the studio. His work examines how remnants from one activity can serve as the foundation for another, as these traces are reintegrated and assembled into novel forms. This work invites contemplation on the inherent potential that lies within what may have been discarded.
Dale Nason presents outcomes from creative practice research in printing typography and related communities of practice. His relief printing plates are made using subtractive 3d printing (CNC milling). This inquiry is situated in overlapping and abutting communities of practice, where activist printmaking methodologies coexist with design education, and bureaucratic affect is adopted to develop an ongoing simulated-workplace situation. The resistance of play, and a reflection on the fragmented archives of letterpress printing combine with speculation into material waste, socio-technical tolerance, resource supply lines, and individual glyphs to spell out variable prompts.
Dale and Simon are both practicing artists and graphic design teachers. Dale is also a PhD candidate.
Photography: Tim Gresham
