Toil
Kenzee Patterson
25 – 26 June 2021
Toil, “hard work”
from the 13th century, "turmoil, contention, dispute"
from Anglo-French, toiler, “agitate, stir, entangle”
from Old French, toeillier, “drag about, make dirty”
from Latin tudiculare, "crush with a small hammer"
an instrument for crushing?
But also a net or snare, from French toile, “hunting net, cloth, web”
to weave, to fabricate, and to till, as in to cultivate
And to do it all again, but why and how?
Time Off In Lieu of what?
Time off 2021 reclaimed railway sleeper, salvaged car exhaust pipe, reused plastic bottle, aluminium grate outlet, consumer electronics, water
Too tired to sleep 2021 reclaimed railway sleeper, salvaged car exhaust pipe, reused plastic bottle, aluminium grate outlet, consumer electronics, water
Exhausted Painting: Vivid Lime Green, Ultramarine, Black, Phthalocyanine Blue (green shade) 2021 ink on handmade paper
Continental Abyssal 2021 tyre retrieved from the Urunga Wetlands, rags kept from a factory job and sewn into a sheet, salvaged car exhaust pipes
Exhausted Painting: Indian Yellow, Violet, Naphthol Orange 2021 ink on handmade paper
Flat/Tyre 2021 blind debossed handmade paper, Ed. 10 (9 hanging)
Floor You It 2021 ink on handmade paper resting on a railway sleeper excavated from the STABLE driveway and brought into the gallery
Exhausted Painting: Vivid Lime Green, Ultramarine, Black, Phthalocyanine Blue (green shade) 2021 ink on handmade paper hanging from borrowed sleeper earrings within a spare bedroom
All paper in this exhibition has been made by the artist using pulp generated from scrap conservation matt board sourced from the Museum of Brisbane.
Kenzee Patterson is represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.