Jugglers has been forming stronger ties with tertiary art institutions in Brisbane, particularly South Bank TAFE. For the past three years we have hosted and funded a show from each graduating group of the Diploma in Fine Arts. The two exhibitions this year have included six emerging artists [three from each class] from a range of genres that I have selected at their graduating exhibitions.
Here is my Inter-subjective response to the January 30 exhibition for Alex Frietas, Felicity Scarce and Jane Mcgeogh.
CAPTURING THE SPIRIT
They caught the spirit
or at lest they ran around trying to
in their little bowls of incense, chocked wood and staring activism.
They were drawn in by their own work
that was obvious with the intensity of installation and the pull down process
It was clear to me that the spirit was there.
Where has the spirit gone now,
now that they have gone and their work has gone?
I was moved but has the spirit gone?
What was it that moved me
what was it that day,
What took me right in there
right into their clay?
What galloped around here?
what took us all in?
Was there really a spirit
Or was it all spin?
A night in the garden,
a night of soft lights
has spun a fine story,
of spirits and flight.
We might begin slowly
to wonder and call
how smells can entrance us
and paintings enthrall.
We might lose our interest,
to find life in the wood
but the spirit has captured
my heart as it would.
The question arises,
has the spirit remained
in their souls and their art work
or gone down the drain?
Peter Breen [Copyright]
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