Exhibition

29.09.06 - 21.10.06
Studio 12
Kiron Robinson
ascension

In his first solo exhibition at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Kiron Robinson will present a minimal, nuanced installation that continues the artist’s ongoing conceptual investigations using text. The meaning of Robinson’s work is as shifting and elusive as the visual language he harnesses, where many of his works highlight the openness and complexity, as well as the limitations, of the English language.

In ascension, an installation consisting of a framed photograph and a suspended fluorescent light, Robinson will draw the viewer into an intimate space coded with ambiguous metaphysical references. Located in the Studio 12 gallery, a space that can only be viewed by navigating a passage upwards through the Gertrude building, ascension will foreground the mediating structures via which we view the contemporary world.

Kiron Robinson received a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2004. His recent solo exhibitions include failure: a celebration, Alliance Francaise Gallery, Melbourne 2005; Time Flies Like Clocks, Fruit Flies Like Bananas, Kings ARI, Melbourne 2004; and We’re happy and we’re small, 24seven, Melbourne 2004. Selected group shows include Doubt, Conical, Melbourne, 2006; 00/07, EmergeD, Edinburgh, 2005; A portable model of…, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmania 2005; and 3015 Australia, 3015 association d’art contemporain, Paris 2004.