Platform Arts are excited to present a multi-medium group show, Hold.

Hands crafting, holding clay to make something that will, in turn, hold what it may. A hand to hold. A hand holds a knife, dripping with red. All that hands can do. All they can inflict. The body is a vessel. You contain multitudes. The inner of you is held by flesh, skin, furniture and room and house and universe. Hold is a taut line. There is tension here - a rope without slack. But tenderness too. Who grasps it? Who cuts it?

Hold is a multi-disciplinary group show that includes ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, textile, jewellery, and mixed-media works. Artists include Sasha Alexandria, Sophie Cochrane, Anni Hagberg, Michelle Jing, Sam Kariotis, Sophia Koot, Iona Mackenzie, Jack Paterson, Steph Raad, Rosie Stanton, Mara Schwerdtfeger and Zoe Baumgartner.

The artists involved examine the spaces between tension and slack, force and inaction, intimacy and stillness. Embodied experiences and gestures are outstretched to the audience.

Different mediums are engaged in order to explore various issues of weight. The boundaries and barriers between human, object, nature, are seen and held and dropped. The artists involved invite you to reflect on your relationship with and within your body. They remind us of our place on the earth and the objects that tether us to it. They celebrate intimacy and inner truths.

Hold invites you to reach out your hand and grasp. Hold invites tenderness and strength. Hold invites you in.

You're invited in from opening night, Friday 25 June. Hold concludes Friday 20 August. Postponement dates for Hold Space poetry evening will be announced shortly

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PLEASE NOTE: THIS EXHIBITION CONTAINS WORKS OF A SEXUAL NATURE AND DEPICTIONS OF NUDITY.

Due to Covid-restrictions, Platform Arts events will be presented in alignment with state government guidelines regarding restricted venue capacity. Platform Arts insist that attendees comply with our Covid-Safety Policy, adhering to current guidelines set by the Department of Health and Human Services in relation to mask-wearing, social distancing, sanitation and check-in code systems.

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