Clementine Belle McIntosh
Inland
31 mar. — 29 apr. 2023
31 mar. — 29 apr. 2023
Clementine Belle McIntosh
Image: Clementine Belle McIntosh, Buried and dyed textile cloth drying on farm fence in Gilgandra NSW, 2023, courtesy of the artist.
Inland
Image: Clementine Belle McIntosh, Buried and dyed textile cloth drying on farm fence in Gilgandra NSW, 2023, courtesy of the artist.
Clementine Belle McIntosh
Inland
31 mar. — 29 apr. 2023
Clementine Belle McIntosh is an emerging rural artist based in Gilgandra NSW, the waterhole meeting place of the Wiradjuri, Wailwan and Kamilaroi peoples. McIntosh was selected for this exhibition by the Gallery through the ANU Graduate Program.
Inland is a textile installation which observes the place-based material histories of found, gifted and unwanted cloth. Made across Wiradjuri, Wailwan and Kamilaroi country in Central West NSW and Ngunnawal country in Canberra ACT, the textiles embody local dialogues between artist-ecology-neighbourhood-industry.
The exhibition explores gift economies (gifting services or goods without the expectation of receiving the same in return) and in environmental collaboration, McIntosh builds relational understandings towards place as both newcomer and local. Inland uses the familiar clothesline structure found in suburban/rural backyards to present dyed, stained, buried and sewn textiles pieces. Accidental, repetitive and environmental mark-making made by artist, stranger and/or the nonhuman, invites audiences to notice and contemplate the textiles entanglements to place and by extension their own.
McIntosh was awarded this opportunity through the Australian National University's School of Art and Design's 2022 Graduate Exhibition, where the Gallery selected a recipient under the Emerging Artist Support Scheme.
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Installation view Clementine Belle McIntosh Inland and Soft Power featuring Julia Gutman, Once More with Feeling, 2022, donated textiles, embroidery, metal chain; Raquel Ormella, Blockade in the studio, Stop Adani, 2022,work uniforms, cotton worker’s shirts, cotton, Raquel Ormella, Stripped empty, 2018,work uniforms, hi-vis fabric, cotton; Clementine Belle McIntosh, Clothesline, 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, secondhand eBay purchased retractable clotheslines, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes and papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Clementine Belle McIntosh Inland featuring Clementine Belle McIntosh, Clothesline, 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, secondhand eBay purchased retractable clotheslines, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes and papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Clementine Belle McIntosh Inland featuring Clementine Belle McIntosh, Clothesline, (detail), 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, secondhand eBay purchased retractable clotheslines, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes and papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Clementine Belle McIntosh Inland featuring Clementine Belle McIntosh, Clothesline, (detail), 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, secondhand eBay purchased retractable clotheslines, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes and papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Clementine Belle McIntosh Inland featuring Clementine Belle McIntosh, Clothesline, (detail), 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, secondhand eBay purchased retractable clotheslines, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes and papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Clementine Belle McIntosh Inland featuring Clementine Belle McIntosh, Clothesline, (detail), 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, secondhand eBay purchased retractable clotheslines, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes and papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Image: Clementine Belle McIntosh, Buried and dyed textile cloth drying on farm fence in Gilgandra NSW, 2023, courtesy of the artist.
Clementine Belle McIntosh
Inland
31 mar. — 29 apr. 2023
Clementine Belle McIntosh is an emerging rural artist based in Gilgandra NSW, the waterhole meeting place of the Wiradjuri, Wailwan and Kamilaroi peoples. McIntosh was selected for this exhibition by the Gallery through the ANU Graduate Program.
Inland is a textile installation which observes the place-based material histories of found, gifted and unwanted cloth. Made across Wiradjuri, Wailwan and Kamilaroi country in Central West NSW and Ngunnawal country in Canberra ACT, the textiles embody local dialogues between artist-ecology-neighbourhood-industry.
The exhibition explores gift economies (gifting services or goods without the expectation of receiving the same in return) and in environmental collaboration, McIntosh builds relational understandings towards place as both newcomer and local. Inland uses the familiar clothesline structure found in suburban/rural backyards to present dyed, stained, buried and sewn textiles pieces. Accidental, repetitive and environmental mark-making made by artist, stranger and/or the nonhuman, invites audiences to notice and contemplate the textiles entanglements to place and by extension their own.
McIntosh was awarded this opportunity through the Australian National University's School of Art and Design's 2022 Graduate Exhibition, where the Gallery selected a recipient under the Emerging Artist Support Scheme.
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Installation view Clementine Belle McIntosh Inland and Soft Power featuring Julia Gutman, Once More with Feeling, 2022, donated textiles, embroidery, metal chain; Raquel Ormella, Blockade in the studio, Stop Adani, 2022,work uniforms, cotton worker’s shirts, cotton, Raquel Ormella, Stripped empty, 2018,work uniforms, hi-vis fabric, cotton; Clementine Belle McIntosh, Clothesline, 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, secondhand eBay purchased retractable clotheslines, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes and papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Clementine Belle McIntosh Inland featuring Clementine Belle McIntosh, Clothesline, 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, secondhand eBay purchased retractable clotheslines, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes and papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Clementine Belle McIntosh Inland featuring Clementine Belle McIntosh, Clothesline, (detail), 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, secondhand eBay purchased retractable clotheslines, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes and papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Clementine Belle McIntosh Inland featuring Clementine Belle McIntosh, Clothesline, (detail), 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, secondhand eBay purchased retractable clotheslines, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes and papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Clementine Belle McIntosh Inland featuring Clementine Belle McIntosh, Clothesline, (detail), 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, secondhand eBay purchased retractable clotheslines, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes and papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers. Photograph Silversalt Photography.
Installation view Clementine Belle McIntosh Inland featuring Clementine Belle McIntosh, Clothesline, (detail), 2023, eucalyptus leaf dye, eucalyptus bark dye, black tea dye, onion skin dye, nightshade weed stains, dam mud, rust, iron water, gifted secondhand fabric from Cooee Retirement Village Gilgandra, gifted corset fabric scraps, gifted old painters drop sheet, thread, found farming metal, eyelets, secondhand eBay purchased retractable clotheslines, found cardboard target with 22 long rifle gunshot holes and papier-mâché Chemist Warehouse sale flyers. Photograph Silversalt Photography.