Juddy Roller Gallery presents ‘Corpus Flux’, the solo exhibition by Lauren YS (USA).

Corpus Flux addresses the idea of bodies in flux, both in states of identity and physicality. Large churning masses of characters flow and twist around central hubs anchored by areas of dark ink— animal overlords that act like planets around which her characters revolve. At first glance, the viewer is confronted by a complex, intricate fluctuating mass that reveals itself piece by piece at closer inspection. These drawings act almost as visual puzzle chains in which each link in the chain is forged by human connection. The over-arching element is playful, strange and sensuous sex, a theme which plays out almost with a mind of its own over the course of this body of work.

Using only black ink, Lauren returns to her roots in graphic novels to render out this world. The medium allows exploration of a wide range of characters, most of them mutant, monster or sporting lovely curiosities, expressing wholeheartedly themes of body positivity and inclusivity. The process of creating these visual puzzles is both complex and organic; paralleling the strange and lovely process of exploring one’s own sexuality. Themes of queer love, empowerment, self-love and unabashed expression of female sexuality abound, surfacing to combat feelings of fear and shame that have pervaded the national psyche in the past year. All works were created with a powerful weight on the idea that consent is paramount, no matter what sex looks like.

Photographed by Nicole Reed.

Smug is rightfully considered one of the worlds foremost large-scale muralists. His highly refined technique and playful approach to his subjects is what sets him apart, and has helped him carve his name into the minds of people across the globe.

Painting far and wide, and spending the majority of his days travelling the world, honing his craft and bringing joy to the masses, his first ever solo exhibition, Skin and Bone, represents the culmination of 15 years of hard work and experience, expressed on a much smaller scale, but faithfully reproduced with aerosol and acrylic on canvas, in keeping with his unique and highly sought after mural style.

Photographed by Nicole Reed

Future Archaeology by Alistair Mooney.

Future Archaeology is the result of a thought experiment comprising,
hypothetical apocalyptic event in which modern knowledge is lost and distant
future archaeologists are charged with the task of deciphering and
reconstructing pre-apocalyptic lifeways.

Taking the form of an anthropological museum exhibit, Future Archaeology
replaces the pottery vessels, everyday items and worship imagery of an
ancient civilisationʼs dig site with the equivalent objects and imagery of our
contemporary epoch. This collection of cultural signifiers excavated not from
the ground but from the psyche and experience of the artist, have been
translated into artefacts which denote daily life and wider societal values,
forming a portrait of the times we exist in.

Carved out of Huon Pine (Lagarostrobos franklinii), the rare species of conifer endemic to the
wet temperate rainforests of southwestern Tasmania. With specimens
recorded to live to over 2,500 years old, this slow-growing tree is among the
oldest living organisms on the planet. Using this timber to shape the artefacts
of Future Arch*eology, Mooney transforms the presumed meanings of the
imagery creating contrasting connotations of beauty and waste, mortality and
immortality, and how what you leave behind will define your life.

Photographed by Nicole Reed.

With a style that’s developed from intricate pen and line drawings, through realistic pencil drawings and then blossomed into paintings, ‘Lonesome Souls’ explores the depths of people. People who soothe themselves by being alone and enjoying solitude in natural places enticing the viewer to feel still and a little more tranquil.

After developing an obsession with water, Lizzio was captured by the underwater photography of Janaka Rodrigue, something which she knew she had to paint. This body of work forms the main theme of ‘Lonesome Souls’, exploring the feeling of weightlessness, the feeling of being completely immersed in nothingness.

‘Lonesome Souls’ is the culmination of months of hard work, non-stop creating and no social life, but Lizzio states it’s the most natural thing to her, the best release and something that makes her happier than anything else.

Packed full of emotion, a narrative of beauty and struggle; ‘Overwhelmed by it all’ is an ambiguous tale of what it means to be alive today. Jason Parker’s solo exhibition presented to us this intriguing analysis on life as we know it, which made viewers think, feel, and see more than ever before.

Jason Parker and Juddy Roller are also proud to announce that 10% of the proceeds from this show were donated to the ‘Orangutang Project’. Please support this amazing initiative by checking out their website to learn more at www.thegreatprojects.com

Proudly sponsored by Grolsch.

Photography by Nicole Reed.

Synopsis

“Life as we know it…

Overwhelmed, isolated and completely surrounded. Ain’t it such a contradiction much like the rest of life”.

Juddy Roller’s second biennial Heist Exhibition recently returned with an impressive international collection showcasing a dynamic range of world-leading contemporary artists at the Juddy Roller Gallery. The line up consisted of artists from six different countries, with names such as Adnate, Smug, Jaw, Sofles, Lister, and Cope2 all in attendance.

This has been one of our most exciting international collections we have had the pleasure of curating, with much credit due to our newly appointed gallery manager Dominika Kuthova. The gallery’s opening night welcomed over 400 guests through the doors, all who helped make the evening a memorable experience.

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank our generous sponsors, Grolsch and Maker & Monger for their ongoing support.

Earlier in 2017, Juddy Roller had the pleasure of hosting and curating Dan ‘Ears’ O’toole’s solo exhibition titled ‘Bending Light’. The exhibition was a delight of colour and sound, as a soundtrack (also produced by the talented ‘Ears’) guides you through a whimsical display of artworks within the Juddy Roller gallery.

The ‘Bending Light’ series is a body of images made through photographic processes; transcribed from photography into paintings, the works become distorted in two stages and are in essence a series of experiments that aim to discover the ways in which light, colour and form can be manipulated to augment reality.

Photos by Rebecca Riley!

Juddy Roller welcomes you to Goodie‘s solo exhibition titled ‘Make Yourself At Home’. This wonderful display explores notions of comfort, safety and routine – ideas commonly associated with ‘home’. Processes are perpetually underway to render things familiar, form habits and configure certainties, in order for us to feel comfortable.

We are continually coming to terms with the relationship between our bodies, other’s bodies and the spaces we inhabit, which function in a way as secondary bodies. Nevertheless, what is familiar is only a recurring strangeness. ‘Make Yourself At Home’ considers the curious relationship between the mundane and the bizarre. The recognisable is married with abstract, private with public, inside with outside, while ideas and mediums reverberate within each other and happen simultaneously on multiple levels.

The show is a pattern of hypotheticals and realities, incorporating installation, painting, works on objects, objects in works, works on works, works on paper, collaborative noise works and poetry. Goodie really trying to challenge typical exhibition boundaries with the show, from 3-d installation, painting on doors that lead to nowhere, adding textures and materials that make you question what it is, as well as painting a giant figure being squished down by the building, which takes up an entire wall off the gallery.

This surely was an impressive display of the human mind and body, with so much talent on display. To put a cherry on top, Goodie also donated 10% of the proceeds from the works sold to the Royal Women’s Hospital…

Kitt Bennett’s first major solo exhibition titled ‘Onwards and Inwards’ features a series of comic-styled illustrations on paper (and straight onto the brick wall) which explores sensations of life and consciousness. He humorously yet slightly sinisterly provokes ideas and philosophies on reality, individuality, existence and the mysterious phenomena that surround us.

Kitt is driven to explore how our possessions inform our individuality, and of how our internal and external worlds connect. These highly detailed illustrations completely blew the minds of viewers which provoked the start to many weird and interesting conversations, to say the least…

In this exhibition titled ‘Monochrome Organism’, Nychos goes back to his roots, showing the Australian public a glimpse of his creative process: every big wall starts with a sketch, and some of those are developed further
and become high-quality ink on paper drawings. These drawings represent the ideas, concepts and
experiments by Nychos that help guide him to create even more anatomically accurate and detailed pieces.

These artworks show the importance of his attention to anatomical details in his work: the correct position of
the bones, organs and skin are key to creating his realistic cross-sections, dissections or translucencies, and to achieve new levels of detail and artistic madness. Nychos puts countless hours into his anatomical studies and this is reflected in the works exhibited at Juddy Roller.

Thanks to Rebecca Riley for the photos!