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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.

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Generation Rent