Palpable Voids

27 September - 20 October 2018

MARS Gallery, Melbourne

Talitha Kennedy’s corporeal works embody natural forces in a constructed world. Her highly personal practice and idiosyncratic use of materials act as allegories of renewal and destruction. Hands-on repetitive processes bring into being fetish-like objects that offer to allay anxieties of impermanent existence.

Black leather soft sculptures interpret organic forms as creature like hybrids of plant, body and landscape to convey an aesthetic of fecundity. Talitha’s textile practice guides her approach to drawing where a skin of surfaces is woven in pen and ink. Intuitive stitch-like marks follow the wrinkles and slopes of crumpled paper conjuring things in flux such as decay, cobwebs or fleeting shadows.

Palpable Voids presents recent sculptures and new drawings as a discipline in filling time and overcoming emptiness, a doodle as heroic gesture.

https://marsgallery.com.au/2018-talitha-kennedy-palpable-voids/

Talitha Kennedy, Creeping time big time, 2018. Ink on paper. 149 x 99cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee. — Talitha Kennedy, *Creeping time big time,* 2018. Ink on paper. 149 x 99cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee.

Talitha Kennedy, Making way up and through, 2018. Ink on paper. 98.5 x 74cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee. — Talitha Kennedy, *Making way up and through,* 2018. Ink on paper. 98.5 x 74cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee.

Talitha Kennedy, Space weight, 2018. Ink on paper. 98.5 x 74cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee. — Talitha Kennedy, *Space weight,* 2018. Ink on paper. 98.5 x 74cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee.

Talitha Kennedy, Tension release, 2018. Ink on paper. 45 x 30cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee. — Talitha Kennedy, *Tension release,* 2018. Ink on paper. 45 x 30cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee.

Talitha Kennedy, Web over, 2018. Ink on paper. 45 x 30cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee. — Talitha Kennedy, *Web over,* 2018. Ink on paper. 45 x 30cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee.

Talitha Kennedy, Spine bind, 2018. Ink on paper. 45 x 30cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee. — Talitha Kennedy, *Spine bind,* 2018. Ink on paper. 45 x 30cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee.

Talitha Kennedy, Grapple with, 2018. Ink on paper. 45 x 30cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee. — Talitha Kennedy, *Grapple with,* 2018. Ink on paper. 45 x 30cm. Photograph by Christopher Snee.

Talitha Kennedy, Shoots & Points, 2018. Leather, thread, polyester fibre and silica gravel. Approx. 25cm high (dimensions are variable). Photograph by Isabel Rouch. — Talitha Kennedy, *Shoots & Points*, 2018. Leather, thread, polyester fibre and silica gravel. Approx. 25cm high (dimensions are variable). Photograph by Isabel Rouch.

Talitha Kennedy, Earth Flesh, 2018. Leather, thread, polyester fibre and silica gravel. 30 x 35 x 300cm (dimensions are variable). — Talitha Kennedy, *Earth Flesh,* 2018. Leather, thread, polyester fibre and silica gravel. 30 x 35 x 300cm (dimensions are variable).

Talitha Kennedy, Heart Mountain, 2018. Leather, thread, polyester fibre and silica gravel. 20 x 15 x 10cm (dimensions are variable). — Talitha Kennedy, *Heart Mountain*, 2018. Leather, thread, polyester fibre and silica gravel. 20 x 15 x 10cm (dimensions are variable).