PLEASURE PLANTS
Adam Lee, Sam Martin, Clare Milledge, Sean Peoples, André Piguet, Michael Staniak, Marian Tubbs, Michelle Ussher, Isadora Vaughan
11 September – 26 October 2019
STATION | SYDNEY
Pleasure Plants is a group exhibition delving into botany and eroticism, exploring the symbiotic and mutually beneficial relationship between humans and plants, and contemplating the pleasures derived from an openness to other species.
Pleasure Plants takes as its inception the ideas expressed in the podcast on general ecology from the Serpentine Galleries, titled plantsex. Here, Emanuele Coccia speaks of the life of plants and their reliance upon the intermingling of differing species of the animal and plant kingdom to reproduce, through a type of ‘orgastic cosmic appointment’. Pursuing this paradigm, the artists in the exhibition will both negotiate and illuminate the complexities of reciprocity in these mutalistic relationships, both within its original scientific context and in more abstracted and evocative forms.
André Piguet
HOUSE 15 / HOUSE 16 2019
Installation view
Pleasure Plants
Pleasure Plants 2019
Installation view
Sam Martin
Travel by Night 2019
Installation view
Sean Peoples
Irrational - Non-cartesian - Emotional 2019
Installation view
Pleasure Plants
Pleasure Plants 2019
Installation view
Pleasure Plants
Pleasure Plants 2019
Installation view
Pleasure Plants
Pleasure Plants 2019
Installation view
Adam Lee
Genealogy 2019
Installation view
Clare Milledge
Pleasure Plants 2019
Installation view
Isadora Vaughan
The Myth of the Lodociea 2019
Installation view
Pleasure Plants
Pleasure Plants 2019
Installation view
Clare Milledge
Calyx wane 2019
oil on stained glass, recycled Australian hardwood (old Goulburn bridge), net
23.5 × 19.2 cm
Sean Peoples
Irrational - Non-cartesian - Emotional (detail) 2019
Michelle Ussher
Tutti Fruity 2018
glazed porcelain, oil paint and beeswax
45.0 × 45.0 × 25.0 cm
Isadora Vaughan
The Myth of the Lodociea 2019
Marian Tubbs
suprasubliminal 2019
bronze
53.0 × 46.0 × 40.0 cm
Adam Lee
Genealogy 2019
oil, synthetic polymer and pigment on canvas
112.0 × 76.0 cm
Sean Peoples
Irrational - Non-cartesian - Emotional 2019
3D printed plastic, sticks, branches, plumbing, garden matter, miniature furniture, found objects, screws, paper
varied
Michael Staniak
OBJ_180 2019
Bronze and acrylic
50.0 × 77.0 × 26.0 cm
Marian Tubbs
Colour of the year 2019
oil on linen
81.0 × 61.0 cm
André Piguet
HOUSE 13 2019
oil on cast acrylic, gallium, epoxy resin
46.5 × 48.0 × 6.0 cm
André Piguet
HOUSE 15 2019
oil on cast acrylic, gallium, epoxy resin
46.5 × 48.0 × 6.0 cm
André Piguet
HOUSE 14 2019
oil on cast acrylic, gallium, epoxy resin
46.5 × 48.0 × 6.0 cm
André Piguet
HOUSE 16 2019
oil on cast acrylic, gallium, epoxy resin
46.5 × 48.0 × 6.0 cm
Michelle Ussher
Orchis 3 2019
oil on card
60.0 × 42.0 cm (framed)
Michelle Ussher
Orchis 2 2019
oil on card
60.0 × 42.0 cm (framed)
Michelle Ussher
Orchis 1 2019
oil on card
60.0 × 42.0 cm (framed)
Sam Martin
Travel by Night 2019
Cotton thread, synthetic polymer and upholstery tacks on canvas over wooden board
35.0 × 32.0 cm
Clare Milledge
Chrysos Sextile 2019
Oil on stained glass, recycled Australian hardwood (old Goulburn bridge), bronze close-readers
30.0 × 36.0 cm
Clare Milledge
Thelychiton ascendant 2019
oil on stained glass, recycled Australian hardwood (old Goulburn bridge), bronze close-readers
42.0 × 25.0 cm
Clare Milledge
Syzygy conjunct 2019
Oil on stained glass, recycled Australian hardwood (old Goulburn bridge), bronze close-readers
32.0 × 21.5 cm
Clare Milledge
Alyxia Cusp 2019
Oil on stained glass, recycled Australian hardwood (old Goulburn bridge), bronze close-readers
30.5 × 28.0 cm
Clare Milledge
Spermum Waxing 2019
Oil on stained glass, recycled Australian hardwood (old Goulburn bridge), bronze close-readers
30.5 × 30.5 cm
Clare Milledge
Diptera trine 2019
Oil on stained glass, recycled Australian hardwood (old Goulburn bridge), bronze close-readers
36.5 × 25.0 cm
Clare Milledge
Leuca Quincunx 2019
Oil on stained glass, recycled Australian hardwood (old Goulburn bridge), bronze close-readers
40.0 × 30.5 cm
Michelle Ussher
Tutti Fruity 2018
glazed porcelain, oil paint and beeswax
45.0 × 45.0 × 25.0 cm
