Spillover (SCA/KNULP), 2021
equipment and furniture from SCA Gallery, folly gallery wall from the previous exhibition, retractable barrier, HD video footage with diegetic sound (duration 12min, looped), wall-mounted LCD screen (permanent courtyard fixture), dimensions and duration variable
in: ‘Transplant’, curated by Alex Gawronski, KNULP Gallery and SCA Gallery, Eora Sydney
equipment and furniture from SCA Gallery, folly gallery wall from the previous exhibition, retractable barrier, HD video footage with diegetic sound (duration 12min, looped), wall-mounted LCD screen (permanent courtyard fixture), dimensions and duration variable
in: ‘Transplant’, curated by Alex Gawronski, KNULP Gallery and SCA Gallery, Eora Sydney
This set of spillover works were developed for KNULP Gallery and SCA Gallery, simultaniously, in response to the provocation by curator Alex Gawronski
From Sarinah Masukor’s catalogue essay:
Things left behind expresses the mood of Helen Grogan’s spillover (2021), the work at the centre of SCA and the periphery of KNULP. Grogan is interested in the present and near past of a site, often using the time of installation and the duration of exhibition as material. The title describes something that doesn’t fit inside its container, and the work at KNULP, a small iPad placed low on the wall beside the window, cycles slowly through a series of shots of the SCA courtyard, the scenes mostly captured through their reflection in another, larger screen, positioned beside the SCA Gallery entrance. In the SCA Gallery, she’s wrapped a flimsy black plastic pole and ribbed ribbon barrier around the centre display walls of the gallery, cordoning off three large flat screens held in polystyrene protectors. One is covered, no draped, in that sroject of Grogan’s – has a small moving image playing on it. The moving image shows a similar and sometimes the same view of the courtyard as the screen at KNULP. Reflected in the screen installed by the university on the courtyard wall, two chairs sit empty. The glare of sun on screen makes the edges of the chairs glow.“The exhibition Transplant was conceived as a collaboration between the independent artist space KNULP in Sydney's Camperdown, and Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) gallery, at the University of Sydney. Part of the underlying though not explicit mandate of the exhibition was to highlight the seminal role independent art spaces play in the creation and not just presentation, of contemporary culture locally (and around the world).
Things left behind expresses the mood of Helen Grogan’s spillover (2021), the work at the centre of SCA and the periphery of KNULP. Grogan is interested in the present and near past of a site, often using the time of installation and the duration of exhibition as material. The title describes something that doesn’t fit inside its container, and the work at KNULP, a small iPad placed low on the wall beside the window, cycles slowly through a series of shots of the SCA courtyard, the scenes mostly captured through their reflection in another, larger screen, positioned beside the SCA Gallery entrance. In the SCA Gallery, she’s wrapped a flimsy black plastic pole and ribbed ribbon barrier around the centre display walls of the gallery, cordoning off three large flat screens held in polystyrene protectors. One is covered, no draped, in that sroject of Grogan’s – has a small moving image playing on it. The moving image shows a similar and sometimes the same view of the courtyard as the screen at KNULP. Reflected in the screen installed by the university on the courtyard wall, two chairs sit empty. The glare of sun on screen makes the edges of the chairs glow.“The exhibition Transplant was conceived as a collaboration between the independent artist space KNULP in Sydney's Camperdown, and Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) gallery, at the University of Sydney. Part of the underlying though not explicit mandate of the exhibition was to highlight the seminal role independent art spaces play in the creation and not just presentation, of contemporary culture locally (and around the world).