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suntrap
Ham Darroch
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5 April - 8 June 2014
Canberra Museum and GalleryCivic Square, Canberra City | 6207 3968www.museumsandgalleries.act.gov.au
Canberra Museum and Gallery is part of the Cultural Facilities Corporation which is an ACT Government Agency.
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5 April - 8 June 2014Canberra Museum and Gallery is part of the Cultural Facilities Corporation
which is an ACT Government Agency.
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Hamilton Darroch
Suntrap 2014
Hamilton Darroch’s art frequently incorporates imagery andobjects from the mundane in everyday life – household tools,implements and appliances. Taking his cue it seems from thepreceptsofpopart,withitsfocusonpopularcultureandmassproduction in reaction against the western fine art tradition,Darrochhasremadeandre-presentedthingsfromthequotidianworld of work and domesticity. However, unlike much pop artthatcelebratesthetawdryglamourofadvertising,hissculpturalobjectsaremorehomely,atleastintheirorigins.
Darroch’smostrecentsculptureshavebeencreatedusingobjectslongexposedtotheelementsintheAustralianlandscape.Darrochuses colour harmonies and geometric patterns to emphasisethe vibrational qualities of found objects. His vernacular worksexploreperception,memory,representationandabstraction.
The centrepiece for the exhibition Suntrap 2014, is a 2.5-metre,brilliantlycolouredworkmadefrom40vintagerabbittraps,setopenandglowing.
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Echo 2012-14 is a sculpture constructed from the remains of adamagedbasketballbackboard.SalvagedfromYarralumla,whosenameapparentlymeans‘echo’,itstoodfor50yearsintheharshelements;weathered,vandalisedandtwisted,theobjectwasnolonger functional but reminded the artist of a Constructivistsculpture.
Darroch has been responding for some time in his practice totheartofSidneyNolan,andthisexhibitionincludesaworkMrs Carroll’s tent2014whichisinformedbyapaintingintheCanberraMuseumandGalleryNolanCollection,Woman and tent1946.
Echo 2012-14
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This intriguing conjunction of assemblage and reductiveabstract art is also the essence of a previous work, Diversion, awall sculpture composed of half-a-dozen ancient worn andcorrodedrabbittrapsinastraightlineararrangement,theirbaitplatespaintedinsimplecombinationsofblueandredformingaprogressivegeometricpatternacrossthework,likeasequenceofsignalflags.
Theredandbluetogethercreateacolourvibrationthatanimatestherustedmetalcontraptions,givingDiversionanalmostkineticquality; this suggestion of movement amplifies the tensionalreadygeneratedbythesinisternatureofthetraps,whichyawnopenasifpoisedtobesprung.
diversion 2013
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Thework ismysterious, resistingastraightforwardreading,yetthe juxtaposition of its slightly incongruous elements seemsto promise some kind of narrative, driven by the signals andpatternswithinitssurface.
While Diversion’s strong primary colours in their geometriccompositions suggest hard-edge painting, there is also arelationshipwiththeintensecoloursandsimpleformsofSidneyNolan’sfigurativepainting.ThevividblueandredofDiversionispresentinthepoignantNolanworkHare in trap1946,wheretheanimaliscaughtinatrapsuchasthoseintheDarrochwork,andthebrilliantblueofitsstartledeyeiscounteredbyasprayofredbloodspotslikeeyeballsonthegroundarounditsstretchedform.
AnotherrecentworkbyDarroch,Moon Boy(afterNolan),recreatedonashovelthatartist’sfamous1939yellowsilhouettepainting,Moonboy(alsoknownasBoyandthemoon),aworkthathoversbetween abstraction and representation. This is a condition ofDarroch’s art, in the almost-figurative shovels and traps withtheir enigmatic past and spirited grunge poetry, now crisplydressedintheraimentsofmodernistabstraction;thetensionispresentandbuoyantanddynamic,animatingtheworkswithoutexplainingthemaway.
Deborah Clark
SeniorCuratorofVisualArtattheCanberraMuseumandGallery,Canberra,Australia,March2014
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Suntrap 2014detail
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Biography
HamDarroch(*1972)isanAustralianartistworkinginsculpture,paintingandperformance.
Darroch’ssculpturesreferencetraditionalmethodsofmakingyetshow a playful, subtle and at the same time critically–foundedtreatmentofeverydayobjects.
Darroch’spaintingsareinspiredbytheactionofeverydayobjects,Australianfloraanddiscardedmaterials.Hisimageryisuniversalevokingsharedhistoriesandexperiences,place,andperceptionwhile revealing a deep sensitivity to the optical effects ofgeometriccolour.
In early 2006, he completed an MFA (research) COFA Universityof New South Wales and in 1997 a Bachelor of Arts from theAustralianNationalUniversity.
In2002,hereceivedaNewWorkGrantfromAustraliaCouncilfortheArtsandin2000,aDevelopmentGrantfromArtsACT.
From 2006-2009 he lived in London and has worked as anassistanttoBridgetRileysince2004.
HamDarrochisrepresentedbyMichaelReidGallery
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Echo 2012-14
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Photography & Design Rob Little RLDI