I always enjoy visiting First Draft Gallery whenever I’m in Sydney. It’s a gallery that always has quite an eclectic group of work. I find l get captivated by the artists’ work that is showing. It can be from fascination to distaste but either way l am challenged.
The work of Sydney artist Mark Booth in Gallery 4 was appealing. He had cleverly constructed PVC piping twisted and turning onto each other. Each piece was about 1 meter by a metre painted white but it’s joins still visible. The pieces where hanging from the wall at eye level. They where each unique in their twists and turns. You could mistaking think that each piece had a use and where intentionally there to disperse a waste. They where each part of the wall space serving a purpose. It seemed the pipes had gone askew and where feeding onto each other rather than taking waste away. I can’t help but relate PVC piping to waste.
To see these everyday objects constructed in a quite a beautiful way in a gallery environment makes me want one of these. If they had been painted black or a bold colour, the allure would have been muted.
These wall constructs had an effortless charm about them while contradictory they would have been difficult to assemble.
Take a look until 17July.
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