A Knife and a Torch + Translations

Overview

Forget sushi, forget anime, forget skiing, forget every single one of those cheap, superficial associations you match with Japan. It’s a country that offers ideas, trinkets of stories and themes that beg to be captured and crafted by the most talented of artistic minds.

Beg no more.

The Hold Artspace is hosting two concurrent, cross-cultural events for half this month, and each is just about as exciting as the other. A Knife and a Torch is a collection created and curated by Kay Lawrence, Kat Sawyer and Vanessa Stanley at Sanda Sution, Aimoto, Japan. It combines the local culture and terrain, with the ‘tourist’ exerpience, drawing on themes of familiarly, home, the natural world and transformation.

The second exhibition, Translations, draws on the similar theme of cross-cultural experience, all at the hands of Bridie Gillman. Drawing from her experiences of both Australia and Indonesia, her work will look into the awkwardness of the unknown, through partial constructions.

As an added bonus, the artists will be speaking at the venue on March 12 from 6-8pm. That’s two for one, for free!