Rebecca Wilson, Lyndsay Rice and Myung Urso at Alight 2019

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Lyndsay Rice, Myung Urso, Rebecca Wilson

Drawing inspiration from the confectionary industry Rebecca Wilson’s collections aim to glamorise the simple pleasures in life. The full spectrum of sweet treats from fruit chews and lollies, to cakes and pastries piled with cream and icing, are distilled down to their simplest forms and matched with a sickly sweet colour palette. The Swizzel series takes inspiration directly from the confectionaries of her childhood, and also from a lifelong obsession with 'how it's made' process videos of factory production. Pastel colours and pure forms are distilled down to a repetitive simplicity that speaks of the efficiency of the factory production line.  Pleasingly palm-sized, pseudo-functional silver rimmed sherbet bowls in pastel coloured porcelain recreate specific iconic sherbet treats from her childhood. This body of work continues to address the themes of the conflict of value and function, and of function versus anti-function, which is ever-present in Rebecca’s work. These works celebrate the simplest pleasures in life, the little indulgences that add value to our everyday. By re-embodying humble confectionaries in materials of high perceived worth, she hopes to highlight the value they bring.

Lyndsay Rice utilises forms of communication both in the natural world and in societal structures to amplify, hybridize, and alter militaristic badges and bird plumage to create a new language. In the natural world, red is the color of warning or symmetry; its relationship to poison, or the iridescence of a skin's surface, exists as an optical trick to confuse a predator. In military outfitting, colors also signify status: purple for honor, or green representing saving a life in the field. Recreating natural and military patterning through both the haptic (piercing) and digital (laser cutting) means allows Lyndsay to seamlessly incorporate various types of materials, such as plastics, leather, paper, and metal in my multilayered forms.

Myung Urso repurposes found paper ephemera such as greeting card cases and donut wrappers in her pursuit to transform plain objects from our daily life into art objects. The inspiration for this expression is derived from architecture; sculpting paper clay which provides an engaging surface while also sustaining the structure. Her interpretation of the word, Synonym, is connected to the word, transform as the actual form evolves into another shape.