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BLAZE THIRTEEN, various artists. Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman House Arts Centre, 55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon. Until April 13. Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 5pm.
BLAZE is Canberra Contemporary Art Space’s annual exhibition of emerging artists from the ACT and surrounds. In the words of its curator David Broker, it is “always eagerly awaited and draws our largest audiences. It’s an intro. To the most thrilling work happening and key to the depth of Canberra’s formidable artistic talents in the early stages of their careers”. The five artists in this iteration of BLAZE go a long way to making Broker’s bold assertions a reality.
Dean Cross – Untitled
Dean Cross has four works, three of which continue themes of Indigenous ownership and dispossession of the land seen in his Fringe Dwellings (2016) and They blew up the hospital I was born in (2017), both at PhotoAccess.
Cross’s formal approach is pictorial and sculptural and is characterised by an aesthetic of suggestion rather than
one of imposition. White Dogs occupies Cube Space. In the darkened gallery a wire animal trap is surmounted by the white dog of the title. The dog stands proudly over the cage (perhaps destined originally for him). The cage is attached by a rope to a concrete-filled bucket, standing next to which is a rudely constructed skeletal human figure loosely reminiscent of a Christian cross. To the right of the figure a drawing of a black cow with an outlined human head speaks of the rural location of the artist’s mise-en-scene.
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