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Shannon Johnson – Pre Entropy: Just Before It Falls Apart

Opening: Saturday 19th August 2023
Exhibition Dates: 16 Aug - 17 Sep
Mon-Tues: CLOSED
Wed-Sat: 11am-6pm
Sun: 11am-5pm

Location:

130 Regent Street Redfern

Featuring:

Pre Entropy

-lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder.

Pre entropy is the starting point, where things seem fine but are, in fact, about to fall apart.

Pre entropy is title to name a liminal moment, a microscopic fork in the road. It’s starting point could be a tidy house, the first rain to break a drought, a powerful kiss, sentient AI or the trigger of a gun.

The atmosphere traverses nostalgia, dreams memory’s real and imagined. Child-like impressions of science, rethinking history, and memory, the search for meaning, even where there is none. . A locket of a moment, treasured and romantised so much so it’s become something different all together, i have complicated something that was so simple

My work has be made through layers and layers of paint, collage and drawing, drawing from source materials gathered for years. Scraps of paper from trips abroad, magazine from the 1930s. Paints from old garages,fine art grade acrylics. Gold leaf and wallpaper. Spray paint and crayons

I work on all of them at once turning them upside down, painting over and starting again sticking down and tearing pieces off, performing a one person spinning plate demonstration until they land where they should. This work has taken 18 months.

My aim is that pre entropy is an atmospheric show, sometimes meloncholy sometimes funny. That demonstrates the bewilderment of making sense of surroundings that never had any meaning.