February 26 - March 26, 2022
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - front gallery
installation view - back gallery
The following are extracts from writing by Jane Wallace that accompanies this exhibition. The full text is available from the gallery.
ELIXIR, LAKE
“Recently, I have been swimming laps again. At the bottom of the pool swills a layer of sediment from the poolside peripheral, leaves and dirt cast in by overhanging trees, debris of plastic, latex and cotton, filaments shedded from nylon swimming togs, an occasional flake of silver or bead lost to the rhythmic suctioning of the filter. I am another substance in this soup, an amalgamation of strands of hair, skin cells, saliva, chlorine, sunscreen. The poolscape is contained by a border of blue concrete aggregate, a modest imitation of the colour of the ocean. From bird’s eye, this balance between frame and water, solution and particle, is a parallel composition to Tyne Gordon’s painted works. Inversely: Gordon’s paintings are surfaces for swimming in…
I cannot think about Gordon’s work without thinking also of photography, as a practice where light behaves as found object, detritus of other circumstances which have been rendered invisible. Gordon’s too, is an alchemical process of a reaction occurring on a metal plate. Her works are produced through layered application of oils on a sheet of copper or aluminium…
The interplay between industrial material and organic matter is a recurring idea for Gordon. Lichen, silver leaf, tarseal and resin comprise the frame of Scanner, a mixture poured into a silicon mould, and turned out when set. In another, strands of iridescent tinsel are suspended in a cloudy swamp. There is a visual rhyme here, with the texture of grass trampled into mud, the blades pushing up through the sludge. The fibrous grass mixed with the smooth texture of wet soil resembles fibreglass, and so Gordon’s frame becomes both of these too…
The currency of Gordon’s work is the mystical and ritual, as though we turned up when the party was over, left to sift through its accessories. In a poem in The Goose Bath, Janet Frame writes:
“I take into my arms more than I can bear to hold / I am toppled by the world / a creation of ladders, pianos, stairs cut into rocks.”
There is an ecstasy to things that go up, in the mantra of their repetition. Gordon’s sculptures follow similar logics, a miracle embedded between all these found things that fit together anyway. Moth and Monotreme are assemblages of abstruse objects that are illegible on their own. As compositions though: cake of garden reel and Christmas tree, concentric towers where meaning is generated through combining and believing.
This is an inventory of the world and Wet Plate is wading through its architecture, pulling a glittering horizon of parts toward us…”
Jane Wallace
A review of Wet Plate, written by Nick Harte, was published in Artbeat, May / June Issue 30, p8.
You can access the review online at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/66570881
Selected works
Scanner
Watery Grave II
Bannister
Carapace
Socket
Bannister II
Moth II
Watery Grave
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Lilo
2022
oil on aluminium, tarseal, silver leaf, tinsel & resin frame
280 x 225mm
Exhibited in
Wet Plate
2022
oil on aluminium, tarseal and resin frame
320 x 275mm
Exhibited in
Wet Plate
2022
acrylic & oil on aluminium, lichen, silver leaf & resin frame
415 x 320mm
Exhibited in
Wet Plate
2022
oil on aluminium, tarseal, tinsel, PVA and resin frame
215 x 168mm
Exhibited in
Wet Plate
2022
oil on aluminium, lichen, tarseal, silver leaf & resin frame
210 x 165mm
Exhibited in
Wet Plate
2022
acrylic & oil on aluminium, tarseal, cellophane, lichen, gravel & resin frame
620 x 470mm
Exhibited in
Wet Plate
2022
oil on copper, lichen, tarseal, gravel, silver leaf & resin frame
270 x 222mm
Exhibited in
Wet Plate
2022
oil and acrylic on aluminium, pewter frame
1260 x 1260mm
Exhibited in
Wet Plate
2022
pewter and nylon
3600 x 170 x 170mm
Exhibited in
Wet Plate
2022
found objects, grout, tiles, tarseal, plaster, resin, wax, acrylic paint
1020 x 370 x 370mm
Exhibited in
Wet Plate
2022
found objects, tiles, grout, plaster, pewter, pigment
620 x 390 x 390mm
Exhibited in
Wet Plate
2022
found object, tiles, grout, plaster
1500 x 600mm x 100mm
Exhibited in
Wet Plate