Image: Owen Leong, Self Portrait as Mountain, 2014, 152 x 240 x 120 cm, wood, foam, paint, pink light, rose quartz, white salt, black glitter, mirror, model scenery, model train, electronics.
Owen Leong, whose exhibition 'Bloodmilk' is currently on display at Artereal Gallery, has created a stunning installation for the group exhibition Mind the Gap at Casula Powerhouse, on show until 25 January 2015.
Entitled Self Portrait as Mountain, Owen Leong continues his exploration of the corporeal as a physical site of exchange through this installation, which visualises an internal landscape of the body through which the motion of a crystal is a journey towards healing.
As one of Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre's most ambitious projects, five contemporary artists have been invited to work with Casula’s local model train group. The artists and the model train club have collaborated to build artworks that model trains will travel through. Model train layouts usually aim to replicate in intricate detail natural landscape and architecture as realistically as possible.
The artists taking part have each coincidentally proposed fantastical worlds that are far removed from traditional model train scenery including an internal landscape of the body, a speculative future Utopia, a Baroque inspired dreamscape, a ghost train and a love train. This project merges two disparate communities and their creative worlds. One of the very few parameters for this project is that a working model train will travel through the work, allowing artists and railfans to share ideas and skills with spectacular and innovative results.
Artists: Sarah crowEST, Emily Hunt, David Lawrey and Jaki Middleton, Owen Leong, Clare Thackway and Gregory Hodge
Image: Owen Leong, Self Portrait as Mountain, 2014, 152 x 240 x 120 cm, wood, foam, paint, pink light, rose quartz, white salt, black glitter, mirror, model scenery, model train, electronics.
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