LIAM BENSON, SAM HOLT + LOUISE ZHANG // Firstdraft Auction 2015

Louise Zhang, Gurl, 2015, acrylic oil resin glitter polyurethane on canvas, 90x60cm

Artereal Gallery artists, Liam Benson, Sam Holt + Louise Zhang are amongst a multitude of other emerging and established contemporary Australian artists who have donated an artwork to the hugely popular Firstdraft Auction 2015, taking place Friday 31 July 2015 in their Woolloomooloo space. 

The highly anticipated event is a crucial fundraising initiative for the organisation, a great way to support the emerging arts community and acquire work by some of Australia's most exciting and collectable artists. This year, over 100 artworks will be available by silent and live auction. 

The exhibition will be open to silent bids from 12pm Thursday 30 July, culminating in an official launch event on Friday 31 July, during which silent bidding will conclude, and the live auction of selected works will commence. 

A ROBOT ATTEMPTS TO EAT A CHICKEN NUGGET...

A ROBOT ATTEMPTS TO EAT A CHICKEN NUGGET...

Tully Arnot, Josh Harle, Jason Phu, Louise Zhang are a new collaborative partnership founded as an outlet for slop and punking. Welcome to hell.

Discharge everywhere.

This is an exhibition revelling in the mess our creations make. Everything is moist. It is dripping, seeping, pooling from every crevice. In this exhibition, capacity never matches ambition.

Robots: they came for your jobs, now they want your lives.

Tully Arnot investigates human relationships with technology. The artist creates an ‘uncanny residue’ of object-life that may change how we see everyday objects outside the gallery. More recently this has been imbuing objects with behavioural patterns using microprocessors and servos.

Josh Harle’s practice focuses on subverting the rationalising drive of technology; anthropomorphizing the actions of robots to present them as quixotic and performative.

Jason Phu presents irreverent, starkly uncompromising views of human nature, and works with inanimate objects to caricature them as grotesque figures.

Louise Zhang deals with the ambiguity of the ‘blob'; mutable, in opposition to the ordered and rectilinear rational world, but potentially monstrous and cancerous; the leakage as a breakdown of control; pastel coloured goop that can be both attractive and repulsive.

Curated by Luke Letourneau. (Showing at Firstdraft until 24 July, 2015).