OPENING EVENT
8th July 6-9pm
EXHIBITION OPENING HOURS
Thursday 7th July 10am - 4pm
Friday 8th July 10am - 4pm
Saturday 9th July 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10th July 10am - 2pm
Yoga with the Artist
Thursday 7th July 5pm-6.15pm
&
Sunday 10th July 9am - 10.30am
Rachael Tanner is an artist and museologist from Brisbane, living and working in Hobart, Tasmania. Graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Queensland College of Art, 2015, and Master of Museum Studies at the University of Queensland, 2021, this exhibition shares the highlights of Rachael’s creative pursuits during this time.
Embodied Encounter at Vacant Assembly features a collection of oil paintings and digital prints which explores notions of sacredness, ephemerality, and cultural embodiment.
Rachael work occurs across three theoretical and practical disciplines; museological studies, visual arts, and the study of yoga. These divergent modes of presentation and philosophical thought peel the layers of consciousness on multiple tiers. Rachael has studied yogic philosophy for ten years, learning how to deepen the relationship to the body through meditative movement. She has spent this time observing how the ritual of asana, pranayama, meditations, mudras, and bandhas give shape to the conscious body and mind.
Her arts practice is grounded through embodied physical and metaphysical explorations of the human body, resulting in a rich cultural and visual inquiry. Her creative process ebbs and flows into various undulations, reflecting on her personal transformations as a human within the birth, growth, decay, and death life cycle. In the self-portraiture work, the progression of these life cycle concepts results in a transformative axis of the self which unfurls over time and on differing planes of experience. The finished artworks are born through process led mediations directed through performance art, film, photography, drawing, painting, and explorations in the digital realm.