Cherished deviances: Distraction and other romances, 2023
Curated by Izzy Baker and Mia Palmer-VerevisPhotos by Astrid Mulder
George Paton Gallery | Feb 20 – Mar 3, 2023
Featuring work by Bec Martin, Kurt Medenbach, Ly Nguyen, Beth Sanderson, and Jessie Turner, and new comissioned work by Row And
In deciding what deserves attention, distraction poses a threat. Cherished deviances: Distraction and other romances invites five artists to explore distraction through four themes: distraction as bliss; productivity; resistance; and as an aesthetic. Jessie Turner’s photographs evoke bliss, Beth Sanderson’s Grating series finds the potential for digressive thought in a household object, Kurt Medenbach ties distraction to chaos, and Ly Nguyen and Bec Martin translate distractions into meditative visual language. Together, they ask, what if distraction was retrieved from the pejorative and reunited with creativity?
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We pay our respects to Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional and ongoing custodians of the land upon which this exhibition was developed and took place.