Somewhere Between Love and an Argument, a collaborative residency at Wreckers Art Space in Meanjin, 2022.
“Over the last 2 years Emerging Artist Kirralee Robinson and Mid-Career Artist Lincoln Austin have assisted with and discussed each other’s individual art practices. For Wreckers Artspace these two artists, at very different stages of their careers, propose a project that would encourage each to interrogate themselves and each other at a greater depth. Through, material exploration, experimentation, and making together, these artists hope to open up their individual practices into unique new collaborative territory, dismantling assumption around career experience and ‘artworld’ hierarchies.
Somewhere Between Love and an Argument is an experiment focused on sharing and candid exchange. Through occupying space together, shared reading, research, and frank conversation the two artists will map out the points of convergence and difference in their practice, approach, and character. Through this experience artworks will be devised that reflect this pluralist relationship, creating artwork/s authored by the collective. Collaboration can be defined as ‘the action of working with someone to produce something’. However, it can also be ‘a traitorous cooperation with an enemy’. The title for this project humorously anticipates moments of both sympatico and the possibility of individual ego’s fighting to be heard and understood.” - Lincoln Austin
Artists involved: Lincoln Austin, Amelia McLeish, Louis Lim, Claire Grant, Mark DePotier, Lyle Duncan, Keemon Williams, Neil Moorehead, Mari Harata, Judy Laws, Micha Rustichelli, Caroline Austin, Louis Tidd, Ruby Yu-Lu Yeh, Chris Hagan, Kirralee Robinson.
