as above, so below

The artworks in this space exist as a tangled ecosystem, exploring the mutually dependent web of living and non-living materials - above and below the surface. Water, salt, crystals, metals, mycelium, plant matter, and glass. Artists Stevie Fieldsend, Kath Fries, Gianna Hayes, Owen Leong, and Linda Sok employ the aesthetics of nature through evocative and embodied encounters with organic, earthen materiality. These creative alchemists navigate our integral being, and the interconnectedness of all things. The artists in as above, so below reflect an awareness that we, as humans, are a smaller part of a much larger and infinitely complex system of coexistence and reciprocity within the macrocosm and microcosm. Concerned with the transformation of organic materials through alchemical processes, the artists present nature as both beyond and within our integral humanism; an essential rhythm, where everything is in a state of ebb and flow. Within this gallery space, the artists prompt us to consider cause and effect and the interrelations of our personal and collective rituals and memories. How earthly matter can ground us to enact preservation and healing, and the interconnectedness of our external and internal bodies. The exhibition unfolds within a realm of links and relations, an ecology pollinated with dualities and transmutations; of reactions, of residue; of transience; of generation and degeneration; of malleable, significant matter.