Incision

Overview

The Paper Mill is a relatively new gallery, studio and zine library specialising in emerging artists who work with paper, which seems almost retro in the current digital climate. Over the next few weeks, the gallery is playing host to a collection of four young and creative Sydney kids: Sean Batchelor, Del Lumanta, Isobel Parker Philip and Daryl Prondoso. Their work features photography, drawing and sculpture, all centering around the many meanings and associations you can make with the word 'incision' — entry points, cuts, meetings of the internal and external and sites of collapse.

Like a murderer or a nervous anatomy student the idea is to expose things that are hidden and concealed under the flesh, literal and metaphorical. In their works the paper replaces the body on the operating table, and it's the material itself which becomes punctured, perforated and sliced apart — it's the paper, not the skin, which is wounded. Their world is one of jagged shapes and shadows, thin and unguarded as the paper itself.