Avarice : Auspice, 2016
PHOTOGRAPHY Rob Little Digital Images (RLDI) and courtesy of Canberra Museum and Gallery This project continues an exploration of concepts of the unseen and in particular, the concept of ‘reading air’. Divised as an avarice pump, this gold inflatable harnesses...
Exact Fantasies, 2012
At the culmination of his PhD, Jay Kochel presents Exact Fantasies, a series of four tableaux that explore the relationships between fetish, magic and interfacing the body. He uses material metaphors of containment, boundaries and fluidity to incorporate perceptions of purity and contagion. The tableaux allude to phantasmagoria and a Freudian sense of the uncanny, a sense of the familiar made foreign. This sense of misrecognition acknowledges the power of mimetic transformation that occurs through sympathetic magic, giving bodily power to objects that bear no resemblance to the bodies they reference.
Smoking Mirror, 2012
Smoking Mirror, 2012 hair, bitumen, polyurethane, polyester resin, timber, webcam, code, computer dimensions variable All images: Brenton McGeachie Exhibited as part of the exhibition Exact Fantasies,...
Séance, 2012
Séance, 2012 timber, copper, hair, polyurethane, Shellac, glass vessel, found and altered table, magnets, brass, steel, electronic components, custom programming, transducer 170 x 255 x 275 cm All images: Brenton McGeachie Exhibited as part of the exhibition Exact...
Votives for Little Hans, 2012
Votives for Little Hans, 2012 wax, polyurethane, epoxy resin, fabric, timber, shellac, copper 255 x 255 x 130 cm All images: Brenton McGeachie Exhibited as part of the exhibition Exact...
Jugum Trumpets, 2012
Jugum Trumpets, 2012 epoxy resin, sequin pins, shellac, Jewel Beetle wings, jute, timber, salt, ammonia, Prussian blue, bitumen 150 x 320 x 60 cm PHOTOGRAPHY Brenton McGeachie EXHIBITIONS SOA PRO, 2016 Exact Fantasies,...
Accursed Gilded Wishes, 2010
This exhibition presents research in progress. As a result of recent fieldwork in Europe this body of work focuses on the magical artifact – reliquaries, voodoo dolls, votive objects, folk magic, juju, ex voto – objects that incorporate human remains or a mimesis of the body. Where there is a material and psychic strategy to harness a spiritual or magical affect. The transference of energy, heat or mana between body and object as a means by which the material world is animated, charged up, and exerts force over people – an exploration of gods in the making.
The Wishful, 2010
The Wishful, 2010. wax, bronze, Mother’s table. dimensions variable. All images: Brenton McGeachie Exhibited as part of the exhibition Accursed Gilded...