David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton are Sydney based artists who have worked collaboratively since 2005. The artists have undertaken residencies in Paris, London, Los Angeles and New York, and their work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Wollongong Art Gallery and Macquarie Group. Their practice is heavily influenced by pre-cinematic optical illusions,traditional museum displays and theatrical magic. Central to their practice is a preoccupation withan in-between state: the twilight spaces between seeing and knowing, natural and supernatural,aspiration and action, life and death.
Lawrey & Middleton are Sydney-based artists who have worked collaboratively since 2005. Both are graduates of Sydney College of the Arts. Exhibitions include Dream Machines at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery (2017); Mind the Gap at Casula Powerhouse (2014) and Otherworldly at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2011). Together, the artists have undertaken residencies in Paris, London, Los Angeles and New York, and have received grants from the Australia Council and Arts NSW. Their work is held in public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Wollongong ArtGallery and Macquarie Group.
View a selection of video works by the artists:
A spoonful weighs a tonne (2019), timber, electronics, motors, bearings, resin, plastic, fabric, paint, spoons, bowls, glasses, activated charcoal, flour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPkLi9VPZEE
This isn't happening #1 (2017), timber, vintage, gramophone motor, pulley belt, magnets, screws, bearings, glue, paper, polymer clay, plastic, fabric, paint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARNRQy8PGXs
This isn't happening #2 (2017), timber, vintage, gramophone motor, pulley belt, magnets, screws, bearings, glue, paper, polymer clay, plastic, fabric, paint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtW-Ar0ayhs
This isn't happening #3 (2017), timber, vintage, gramophone motor, pulley belt, magnets, screws, bearings, glue, paper, polymer clay, plastic, fabric, paint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjX8axZpUM8
The bear that wasn't (2013), kinetic sculpture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPycc0P1pZI
Open Sky (2016), video 9:15 mins, narrated by Megan Drury.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yukqTbz5v-4
Mystery Hill (2011), kinetic sculpture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc70H0c3amU
Time Trap (2015), kinetic sculpture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrwGrLu_fgk
The choice is yours (2011), kinetic sculpture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHbhDg9Kobg
Best shot (2013), kinetic sculpture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP9kQlKjcbg
Consolidated life (2010), kinetic sculpture (SOLD).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPp0GWPuW-s
If you are interested in acquiring any of these works, please contact the gallery.
