SPACE A + B
NOTHING TO SEE HERE
CAMERON GILL AND DARREN MUNCE
Closure, one of the five perceptual organisation principals proposed by Gestalt psychologists, suggests that the human mind, when confronted with a partial or incomplete image, automatically employs logic, knowledge and experience to fill in missing information, rationalising what visual information is present into something familiar and expected. Nothing To See Here is an exhibition of unique state prints and oil paintings by Cameron Gill & Darren Munce that explores this principle and investigates how figuration, abstraction and the considered manipulation of spatial organisation are able to visually and perceptually challenge the viewer. Interested in the junction between image and reality, this dynamic body of work experiments with the deliberate omission, subtraction and masking of key details and secondary elements. These manipulations generate works that possess a vibrating quality, exposing the physical movement of the artists and the material substance of paint. This history is revealed and displays the ghosts of the images’ past to expand on the mystery of their development to the current state.
