Held on the 27th Feb 2025
at 5:15pm to
6:15pm
, Northern Tasmania
Inveresk Library, Level 2, Room 216 , Invermay, TAS 7248
Summary:Ways of Knowing – artist panel discussion with artists Rebecca Selleck & Gabbee Stolp , facilitated by Zara Sully, Director of Sawtooth ARI
Ways of Knowing – artist panel
Join us on Thursday, February 27, at 5.15 pm at the University of Tasmania's (@universityoftasmania) Inveresk Library, Level 2, Room 216 for an artist panel discussion with artists Rebecca Selleck (@Becselleck) and Gabbee Stolp (@saintgabbee), facilitated by Zara Sully (@zarasully.art), Director of Sawtooth ARI. Rebecca and Gabbee will talk about their recent work and creative processes as part of the UTAS x Sawtooth Vitrine series.
Rebecca and Gabbee’s works are currently on display as part of the ‘UTAS x Sawtooth Vitrine series,’ now at Inveresk Library, Level 3. You can view their works during business hours until 3 March 2025.
Artists
Rebecca Selleck is a Canberra-based artist with a focus on sculpture and interactive installation, blending furniture, casting, assemblage, soft sculpture and animatronics. She completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts at the ANU School of Art with First Class Honours, majoring in Sculpture and Art Theory, and also holds a Bachelor of Communications, majoring in Creative Writing and Literary Studies. She uses her practice to reciprocally investigate and challenge her own perceptions within a culture of conflicting truths. Her work overlays time and place to express the need for human accountability and the painful complexities of animal and environmental ethics in Australia.
Gabbee Stolp is a visual artist based in the Derwent Valley, lutruwita/Tasmania. Gabbee’s practice exists across several mediums with a primary focus on contemporary jewellery, object-making and textiles. Gabbee’s work examines material, memory and place, evoking biological and metaphysical themes including grief, loss and human-induced extinction. Gabbee creates gentle tools with which to reflect on time and change and the way our human lives are invariably connected to the deep history and ecology of the places we live.
Image credit: Rebecca Selleck, Remnants, 2024
Bronze, steel, cotton velvet, sealant
Dimensions variable
Image credit: Gabbee Stolp, Maugean skate, 2024,
goatskin leather, thread, natural pearls, onyx beads, stuffing materials
About the works:
Rebecca Selleck
This work is assembled from remnants around my studio and comes from a quiet place in my mind. Sometimes words seem pointless when we’ve been shouting so loud.
Circles are calming, making orbits like atoms and stars and those thoughts trying to make sense of it all. Velvet is lush and embracing, pink like flesh and blue like waves. Bronze is an exploration of value systems, fragility, and permanence. Pteridium esculentum, or austral bracken, whose genus is prehistoric and expansive, shades the curled forms of the mice my cat once left me. A muscle shell splits and moves with the current, eroding with its surroundings and growing with the organisms that make it home. On a hovering twig lichen forms a complex symbiosis of cyanobacteria and fungi, along with a single-cell yeast and other friends. A little banksia pod rests with its leaf, having spat its seeds along the path we walk to school.
Gabbee Stolp
Dear Thylacine of The Sea,
In 100 years, will they use your image on government letterheads and beer bottles and in tourism advertising campaigns?
Will there be Facebook groups dedicated to sharing sketchy videos of sightings of you in the Adelaide Hills?
Will tiny versions of you be forever trapped inside snow globes and sold at every newsagent, post office and country service station in the state?
Will Chris Hemsworth’s grandchildren chuck some of their excess cash at a project to bring you back from extinction?
I hope that’s not your fate.
Love,
Gabbee
The vitrine holds them in stillness, pausing time.
This work is a small solace, a way to sit silently with the fragility and beauty of things when our voices grow weary.
