CURRENTLY @ D.I.P.
JIMMY NUTTALL
Sydney (Quantas)
@ D.I.P - Darlington Installation Project



Jimmy Nuttall's artfully draped silk scarf offers, as he says, 'a playful take on nationalism' with a 'luxury item presented in a provisional manner.' Of course, it is the Qantas silk scarf's iconic symbol and corporate logo draped across the gracious necks of flight attendants across generations, the "trolley-dolly" ambassadors of Australian good will, that might not be so.


Nationalism can become murky territory if we think too long, while Peter Allan sings along to "I still call Australia home", lifted as a Qantas commercial that might come back as a memory ruffling the playful elegance of Nuttall's iconic "sculpture", which also play's with the corporate name through its title.

D.I.P - or the Darlington Installation Project - is a satellite project of Slot and is a corner window gallery located at 30 Golden Grove on the corner of Abbercrombie Street.

Jimmy's exhibition continues Slot participation in Dispatch - a project linking window galleries across Australia.


JANICE FIELDSEND + MARIE McMAHON

Two artists go for a walk at Kamay, Botany Bay National Park
Until 5 July 2014


Slot is located at the start of Botany Road. This exhibition takes the other end of this urban artery as its inspiration - a wild landscape where the city meets the sea. It is the shared journey of two artists - Janice Fieldsend and Marie McMahon - and while their working styles are extremely individual, their passion 'to explore how nature becomes incorporated into culture'. as Jan describes, unifies their work. Their regular walks to this landscape over a prolonged period have brought about an alert synthesis in the work - one the found object more literally, while the other the texture and meter of that walk. Both have deep embedded poetics of location, history, time and memory.