Install view
Act Natural
Install view
Install view
Install view
About the exhibition
Curated by Yvonne Todd for Face to Face Portrait Festival, Act Natural brings together 20+ works by nine artists – many of whom ware showing at McLeavey Gallery for the first time.
Featuring work by Marie Blampain, Geoffrey Heath, Gilbert Melrose, Christina Pataialii, Meg Porteous, Cass Power, John Tiger Shen, Yvonne Todd and Susan Wiggins, the exhibition explores everyday performance – the ways in which we contort ourselves to deflect scrutiny and fly under the radar or blatantly ignore convention to embrace absurdity.
With subjects ranging from wrestlers to naturalists, homoerotic bikers and women adorned with kitchenware, the exhibition is potent and full of intrigue.
Big Rikishi
Christina Pataialii, 2021
watercolour on paper, 14.8 x 21 cm
Christina Pataialii, 2021
watercolour on paper, 14.8 x 21 cm
A Young and Restless Triple H
Christina Pataialii, 2021
watercolour on paper, 14.8 x 21 cm
Christina Pataialii, 2021
watercolour on paper, 14.8 x 21 cm
A Young Dunane
Christina Pataialii, 2021
watercolour on paper, 14.8 x 21cm
Christina Pataialii, 2021
watercolour on paper, 14.8 x 21cm
A Young John Cena
Christina Pataialii, 2021
watercolour on paper, 14.8 x 21cm
Christina Pataialii, 2021
watercolour on paper, 14.8 x 21cm
Stone Cold & An Old Undertaker
Christina Pataialii, 2021
watercolour on paper, 14.8 x 21 cm
Christina Pataialii, 2021
watercolour on paper, 14.8 x 21 cm
Autumn
Geoffrey Heath, 2010
120 x 95cm, C-type print from scanned 6x7 transparency film
Geoffrey Heath, 2010
120 x 95cm, C-type print from scanned 6x7 transparency film
Bracchia
Yvonne Todd, 2021
C-type print from scanned 4x5 film, 115 x 91 cm
Yvonne Todd, 2021
C-type print from scanned 4x5 film, 115 x 91 cm
Your indifference used to be attractive
Geoffrey Heath, 2010
C-type print from scanned 6x7 transparency film, 120 x 95cm
Geoffrey Heath, 2010
C-type print from scanned 6x7 transparency film, 120 x 95cm
Uber Picture 3
Meg Porteous, 2019
C-type hand print, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Meg Porteous, 2019
C-type hand print, 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Self-portrait (untitled footnotes)
Cass Power, 2020
Archival inkjet print on cotton rag from 6x7 scanned negative film,, 100 x 80 cm
Cass Power, 2020
Archival inkjet print on cotton rag from 6x7 scanned negative film,, 100 x 80 cm
Self-portrait (untitled fixations)
Cass Power, 2020
archival inkjet print on cotton rag from 6x7 scanned negative film, 100 x 80 cm
Cass Power, 2020
archival inkjet print on cotton rag from 6x7 scanned negative film, 100 x 80 cm
Here I Am
Susan Wiggins, 2013
C-type print from scanned 4x5 negative film, 125 x 100 cm
Susan Wiggins, 2013
C-type print from scanned 4x5 negative film, 125 x 100 cm
Self-portrait (untitled fragments)
Cass Power, 2020
archival inkjet print on cotton rag from 6x7 scanned negative film, 100 x 80 cm
Cass Power, 2020
archival inkjet print on cotton rag from 6x7 scanned negative film, 100 x 80 cm
Overlay no. 5
Marie Blampain, 2015
C-type print, 52.5 x 42 cm
Marie Blampain, 2015
C-type print, 52.5 x 42 cm
Untitled
John Tiger Shen, 2020
C-type prints from scanned 120 film
John Tiger Shen, 2020
C-type prints from scanned 120 film
