on being an artist: 11 actions (2020)

“On Being an Artist is an exhibition comprising of 11 Actions inspired by Michael Craig Martin’s collection of memoiresque essays of the same title. After gleaming insights, advice and interesting quotes from Martin’s text, these quotes were misread and applied as instructions on being an artist in the style of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s ‘Do It’ Exhibitions conceived in the 1990s.”-

https://www.praxisartspace.com/exhibition-program/

action 2: E(Direction/Discipline) ARTIST: NAT PENNEY & ELEANOR AMOR

Describe 15 seconds using:

Reading (with globe)

1980 tape on wall (Dimensions decided at time of installation)

Bottle brush Corkscrew

f: Decisiveness over Tidiness

Directness

Don’t hide errors

This installation "tired out with so much talking, so much listening, so much toil and play' addresses the lethargy of making. These sculptures highlight the foundations of an object; frames, tape, hooks and joins. Eleanor Amor and Nat Penney bring attention to the quiet errors and frameworks that are built within artworks. By stripping forms of function Amor and Penney created a body of work that plays with indecisiveness, producing a series of assertive objects tethered to their ineffectual state.

Titles and materials:

tired out with so much talking, 2020. Tasmanian oak, American oak chocks, pewter

so much listening, 2020. compass, calipers, magnets, foam, fabric, timber

so much toil and play, 2020. spotted gum, mild steel, Tasmanian oak, chair socks

nat penney, so much toil and play (detail), 2020, spotted gum, mild steel

eleanor amor, so much listening, 2020. compass, calipers, magnets, foam, fabric, timber

eleanor amor and nat penney, so much toil and play (detail), 2020. Tasmanian Oak, chair socks