First exhibition since lockdown for Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro’s artwork Mayday.
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre has launched its first major exhibition of works since being forced into lockdown.
Post-Haste features the works of Blue Mountains-based artist duo Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro.
It officially opened on October 30 and will stay on display until January 16.
The exhibition showcases a decade of works from the pair, exploring themes of obsolescence, collective endeavour and the place of the individual within complex systems.
It includes works across a variety of mediums, including site-specific interventions, photography, sculpture, video and sound.
Paul Virilio’s concept of Dromology is a theme throughout the exhibition; investigating how the speed at which something happens may change its essential nature.
A timely topic considering the forced stasis of the world due to COVID, the artists question whether this may be some kind of payment that has been long overdue. Many of the works suggest future scenarios and project outcomes if we are to continue on the path we are on.
Blue Mountains-based artists Sean Cordeiro and Claire Healy.
A new work by the duo, Mayday, is a large-scale Piper aircraft wing adorned with stickers.
“Our work Mayday uses the pathos of a discarded wing as a canvas to announce a cry for help,” the artist’s said.
“The scale and materiality of the work makes the work fall somewhere between an aviation accident and an act of vandalism. It is a cry for help to a disinterested audience.”
Alongside the works of Healy and Cordeiro will be a selection of pieces from high school students made in collaborative workshops hosted by the artists.
The works, titled Epicormic Growth, come from senior art students from five Blue Mountains schools, and are in response to the Post-Haste exhibition.
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre is located at 30 Parke Street, Katoomba.
For opening hours and more details visit bluemountainsculturalcentre.com.au