Manufactured Underwater by Briony Galligan
Exhibition
Friday 8 December 2022 to Tuesday 28 February 2023
Laneway Gallery, an outdoor exhibition space at Woods Street Arts Space
44 Woods Street, Laverton
My body is a swimming pool
a pebble with a heartbeat slips in
da-donk, da-donk, da-donk, da-donk, da-donk, da-donk, da-donk, da-donk, da-da donk
a muffled jellyfish echo through
the water they dream
as though awake
‘Manufactured Underwater’ by Briony Galligan is a series of drawing works that spirals between children’s toys and ideas of gestation. The work uses hand drawn graphics that reference the gyroscope and spinning top, as well as the spirograph and basic geometry sets; tools that children often use to learn, draw and navigate the unknown. This is combined with personal texts and ideas from queer theory about the potential and excess of gestation to move towards a spinning and ambiguous watery creatureliness of early childhood.
The exhibition was on display at Laneway Gallery Friday 8 December to Tuesday 28 February 2023 at Laneway Gallery, an outdoor exhibition space at Woods Street Arts Space in Laverton and was part of the 2023 Midsumma Festival, Saturday 21 January to Sunday 12 February 2023. A selection of works will also be on display at the Altona Civic Centre, Altona.
The Midsumma Festival is Victoria's premier LGBTQIA+ cultural festival, made for and by communities who live with shared experiences around diverse gender and sexuality. Since 2010, Hobsons Bay City Council has facilitated local activities and events each year as part of Midsumma Festival, through Midsumma Westside. Midsumma Westside is a partnership with Brimbank, Maribyrnong, and Wyndham LGAs that celebrates the LGBTIQA+ community in the context of Midsumma Festival.
Laneway Gallery is an outdoor exhibition space at Woods Street Art Space in Laverton. Part of the space’s overall annual programming, this is one of a series of commissioned displays by artists responding to social, historic, or environmental themes. Learn more about Laneway Gallery.
If you have questions about the work, please contact the Arts team at arts@hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au.
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