The Hold Artspace, on behalf of the artists, warmly invites you to the concurrent exhibitions and openings of Beneath our Feet by Dennis McCart and A Line from Me to You by Shayna Wells.

Dennis McCart’s practice focuses on ‘Edgelands’; liminal zones and banal structures often unobserved or ignored. Inspired by the mass-produced object of the utility lid and the repurposing of lids in Japan, McCart’s Beneath our Feet documents utility lids in both Australia and Japan, comparing notions of production, commodity, and cultural perceptions of beauty and ugliness.

A Line from Me to You is the outcome of Shayna Wells’ residency inIceland. Wells lived in a small community of five hundred people in north west Iceland for two months, with the resulting videos and photographs documenting and reflecting on her time there. Specifically, they represent the connections Wells made to the place, the people and to the landscape.

The focus of the video works in this exhibition is the performance element rather than the medium itself. Wells uses her body in the works as a connection between the emotional and psychological self and the physical world. They become a meditation on the process of seeing and the human interaction with the landscape.

The photographs more intimately reflect on Wells’ residency as immediate insights into her emotional responses to the foreign. The variety of perspectives and perceptions of form they include is a metaphor for the multifaceted nature of the experience.