Please join us for the opening of Stefan Neville’s ‘Exhibition etc.’!

While he is better known for the 20+ years spent recording and releasing sincerely iconoclastic pieces of broken and beautifully repurposed song as Pumice, Stefan Neville’s assemblage, sculpture, drawing, and installation all make total sense if viewed through the Pumice spectacles, as if taking their aesthetic cues from the same sources.

Indeed, it is almost as though each of the works collected for this exhibition strive to adopt the same qualities sonically present in Neville’s music – broke-down sounds, slowed-down Magic Band rhythms, crumbling chord organ hymns, and tragic ballads that reach deep into the soul, are mirrored in tiny, hissing walkie walkie wig wams, smelly strap-ons, snifkin arse, and vitrines filled with cassette-curiosities of fishy fidelity.

How thoroughly these two modes of creativity compliment each other is, perhaps, not so surprising given the close proximity in which Neville’s visual and sonic practices have developed. In a sense, Neville’s images are deeply pragmatic, conceived as album covers, posters and T-shirts, or for the comics published with Clayton Noonewhich hark back to the experience and experiment of making and sending music into the void.

Stefan Neville, ‘Exhibition Etc.’
Opens Thursday 4 February, 5.30pm.
Gallery open 12 – 4pm, Tuesday – Saturday.
Closes Saturday 27 February 4.00pm.