Merike Estna + Keef Winter "On Becoming Fluid"

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Estna’s works are vast painted canvasses that run through the space like run-away curtains. Estna’s work becomes at once a painting, a sculptural object and a spatial treatment. This manifestation of her research into the acts of painting and visual/virtual language expresses the possibilities of experiencing and looking playfully at things. Both through the aesthetic presentation and through the visitor’s experience a sense of immersion is generated at different scales.

Winter’s works are a series of sculptural apparatus that also function as noise-making instruments to be played as an ensemble. Beginning from his ‘Handyman Aesthetic’ method of production, Winter welds and powder-coats steel bar and sheet to create a range of abstracted trolleys, surfaces and devices.

On the opening night there will be a series of performances by Winter and Estna and invited guests. Merike will mix her signature ‘cocktails as paintings’ to be drunk and never seen again. Winter’s performance uses his sculptural apparatus to create a cacophony of noise via sheet steel, hammering, contact microphones and a sound system alongside Hardwick Gallery curator Sarah Bowden.

Also joining Estna and Winter are acclaimed musicians Chris Cundy and Bobby Barry & Ian Mikyska who will be responding to the exhibition with improvised music sets on the 17th March from 6pm – 8pm.