The Light In Your Window brings together three artists; Jeremy Hawkes, Kriyavidya Ferrari, and George Worthy. Each artist explores the small detail, the small moments, the more subtle elements of seeing hearing and feeling. Their practice includes drawing, weaving, painting, sculpture, and sound, each exploring colour, line, symbol, and repetition.
This exhibition will run for two weeks and include a premiere performance of George Worthy’s graphics score for solo bassoon and electronics, as well as meditation sessions and artist led workshops.
About the artists:
George Worthy is a multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and weaver based in Naarm/Melbourne. He specialises in bassoon, clarinet, electro-acoustic improvisation and composition, textile design, and contemporary music practices. George has performed with the Australian Art Orchestra, with various Australian based artists, and as a soloist. He has composed music and sound design for festivals, and contemporary dance. He has recorded on multiple projects throughout Australia and internationally. George works with some of Australia’s leading art institutions as a score reader and sound technician.
George will be exhibiting a collection of recent weaving works which explore sound, music, the score, colour, and line. His textile work investigates the relationship between sound and textile, inviting the viewer and the performer to see and hear deeper, to extrapolate sonic information from seemingly non-musical symbols, to listen.
Inspired by acoustic ecology, contemporary sound culture, and deep listening, George’s work is both visual, sonic, and instructional. His woven graphic scores challenge the way a composition is notated and the way in which musicians ‘read’ a score. His scores act as both art object and living manuscript.
George holds a Bachelor of Music (bassoon) from ANU and Fine Art (Sound Art) Honours from RMIT.
Kriyavidya Ferrari is a Melbourne based visual artist and yoga teacher working across varied mediums including painting, printmaking, sound, and photography. Her work investigates non-objective form and is inspired by suprematism, minimalism, and neo-tantra art.
Central to this work is Kriyavidya’s exploration of Eastern philosophy techniques from the Samkhya, Tantra, and Vedic traditions.
Across this exhibition Kriyavidya’s use of abstraction, geometry, code, colour theory, and repetition bridge her meditation practice to her painting practice. Here paintings act as a stepping stone between physical orientated practices and inward meditation.
Recently completing a Diploma of Visual Arts at Northern College of Arts and Technology, Kriyavidya’s seminal piece, 108 Small Acts of Resistance, will be exhibited for its final show, along with a selection of new works completing this series.
Across the exhibition, Kriyavidya will bring to light the yogic component of this work, delivering a daily Trataka meditation practice in the gallery for those curious to explore and contemplate the act of looking as a pathway toward developing deeper awareness.
Jeremy Hawkes is a multi-disciplinary artist, writer, teacher and occasional performer with over 30 years’ experience exhibiting extensively in Australia and overseas including New Zealand, Hong Kong, the UK and Germany. He has had over a dozen solo exhibitions and has contributed to countless group shows. He is a published writer, a sought after teacher and facilitator for community based projects, has advised government on arts and disability strategy and funding and is a sought after public speaker and panellist.
These recent works are in response to just how terrifying the world has become. I would be working in my studio and listening to the news and various podcasts – trying to follow and perhaps understand just what was going on in the world. I was in such shock and feeling such grief that all I could do was to look down and notice the sticks, stones and bones. What is it that really matters? Matter itself.