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Settlement and the Gatekeepers


The domestic gate representing the ongoing settlement of land in Australia







Settlement and the Gatekeepers

















All above images: Installation view of Elvis Richardson’s Settlement and the Gatekeepers on display as part of the Melbourne Now exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne from 24 March – 20 August 2023. Image: Sean Fennessy












Settlement and the Gatekeepers is a suite of sculptures modifying used domestic gates by removing parts, inserting words and attaching new fixtures. Flattening the gates form they draw a line and hang flat like paintings on the gallery wall.  

Settlement #2 and #3 are modified exterior gates with the word Settlement incorporated into the gate itself united by a joyfully feminine candy pink blush surface which overpowers the weight and gravity expressed in bends and letter forms providing the thinnest of barriers separating surface from substrate..

Settlement in Relief a number of digital ink jet prints push the barrier affect further applying a visual illusion of embossing where textures and surfaces of domestic interiors recede and advance to create the image and almost forensically elicit sensations of touch.

Hot Flush a set of cast bronze plaques of a carved relief profile of Queen Elizabeth II familiar to us all on commonwealth coins yup is it all about money.






























Above images: Settlement and the Gatekeepers
installed at Hugo Michell Gallery, November 2020 and Occassional Space August 2020.








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Generation Rent






Generation Rent 2022, continues my ongoing interest with representations of ‘home’ within political economic and social contexts built upon the exclusive, exclusionary legalities of private property. 

Generation Rent is a game, letters displayed on an ironwork embelishment can be rearranged to make new words and phrases. Accompanying works Generation Rent Rules and Score Board get the game night started.  It’s a competition and you feel like the loser when you rent in Australia where property owners have more rights and benefits and your a human resource.  


















GENERATION RENT 2023, Laser cut mild steel, white powdercoat, 700 x 600 mm




GENERATION RENT
now in the Art Gallery of Ballarat collection.
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Exhibited at Void_Melbourne
GAME NIGHT with Beau Emmett
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FEATURED & EXHIBITED



Settlement & the Gatekeepers
NGV - Melbourne Now
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Settlement & the Gatekeepers 
Occasional Space
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Settlement & the Gatekeepers
Hugo Michell
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Settlement #4
The Art Gallery of New South Wales
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SETTLEMENT #5 (Establishment/TREATY) Contour556 Biennale Canberra
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