Join Oscar and Sophie Bannan for an artist talk at Gus Fisher Gallery as they discuss Chicken Poems, their new exhibition presented in The Changing Room.
Oscar Bannan (b. 1998) is a recent graduate of Ilam School of Fine Arts (BFA hons, Sculpture). Using performance, video, photography, writing and found object assemblage as methods of experimental self-portraiture, his practice is fuelled by meditations on improvisation, personal history, sustainable living practices, magic, influence and the performativity of the everyday.
Sophie Bannan (b. 1989) is an artist, writer and educator based in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her practice is multi-modal, working across image and object making, performance, and text. Bannan’s work generates subjective ecologies of landscape, history and communities of practice in Aotearoa. Her work has recently been exhibited at Centre of Contemporary Art (Christchurch), Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, RM Gallery (Auckland) and Auckland Art Fair. She is a co-founder of artist-run galleries North Projects (Christchurch) and Personal Best (Auckland) and regularly contributes to art publications and catalogues.
Chicken Poems marks the launch of Gus Fisher Gallery’s new proposal driven space called The Changing Room. Intended as a project space for newly commissioned artwork, The Changing Room enables a dedicated solo space for Aotearoa-based practitioners.
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