Defiance Gallery is excited to host an afternoon of music performance and art conversation.

With talks by current exhibiting artists, Pamela Honeyfield and Michelle Hungerford, followed by a performance by Chaos Collective, this will be an afternoon at the gallery you won't want to miss!

After gaining international attention with a successful debut performance at Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum in late 2022, emerging ensemble Chaos Collective are determined to be a force within Australia’s New Music scene.

Founding members Isobel Archer (piano), Ben Lopes (composition, guitars), Saskia Shearer (percussion) and Maddy Briggs (composition, electronics, bass) find solace in the weird and exciting world of modern instrumental performance treading the line between Classical, Electronic and Experimental.

Mentored by Ensemble Offspring founder Damien Ricketson, Chaos Collective morphs together electro-acoustic improvisations, new original compositions, and published chamber compositions. As the name suggests, the Ensemble holds the audience between states of chaos and calm in surround-sound performance settings eliminating the binary nature of the typical classical performance.

Chaos Collective embarked on an international trip to perform at the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Tuscany, Italy in June 2023, and was also invited to perform at Dots and Loops Playback festival in Brisbane in late 2023.

Pamela Honeyfield's current exhibition, Seeding the Wind, and Michelle Hungerford's Tough Ground | Deep Heart both explore time the artists spent on residency at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary in the Northern Territory. Two very different views of the same landscape.

Both artists will be talking informally in the gallery, sharing thoughts on the residency, their practice and work.

LISTEN TO CHAOS COLLECTIVE HERE

VIEW EXHIBITIONS HERE