Pin-up is delighted to present Jon Tarry: Arrival and Departure
Exhibition previews by appointment from 9 February
Opening night Thursday 16 February, 6 – 9 pm, all welcome
A selection of the artworks are available for purchase (POA)
On arrival in Melbourne and encountering the emptiness of the waiting gallery space, I experience a feeling of constrained anticipation, of unknowing, of what time may offer. Watching the building 'crack' in the summer heat, a ‘nothingness' is apparent - like a blank piece of paper. These early thoughts and existential musings give way to a confluence of ideas and a preoccupation with the sensorial.
I recall striking the ground, skidding onto Tulla, the controlled 'crash' of an airbus. Returning two weeks on with artist Cam Robbins and photographing light trails across the night sky, we film the approach as an arresting sound wave pursuing raw form in slight delay. A sound delay that shatters barriers and is screened as an opening night performance.
In the studio the inky runway tyre markings are remade and scaled as a drawing – a scroll. The act becomes its own self - made within the risk and chance of only three seconds, a drawing, a means of making an idea, bringing it into existence and letting it be. The result: A unique mark on a ground, ten metres, extruded across a crisp white paper surface. Something destroyed and yet something made.
On the photo-grey walls of the gallery, the frame acts as an aperture or device of perception. Paradoxically, a formal investigation reveals framing as a means of constructing the environment in which we inhabit. Yet much like the drawing they are extruded and remade. These are the departures I'm engaged with... fasten your seatbelt, there may be some turbulence.