ROBERT HAGUE
SEPTEMBER 05 - 22, 2024


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"NOTHING NEVER NOT LASTS"
Exhibition 

In the churning chaos of time, what is lost and what remains? What do we discard and what do we hold onto and protect? In his new body of work ‘Nothing Never Lasts’ exhibiting at Oigåll Projects in September, artist and sculptor Robert Hague renders the ravages and victories of time through a series of steel sculptures, examining the way time and atmosphere corrodes and conversely immortalises the things we value - as individuals and as a culture at large.

Exploring our relationship with history and hierarchy through physical conceptualisations of entropy and decay, Hague positions his audience to encounter contemporary relics that feel salvaged, things belonging to time in the immediate sense, reconfigured as timeless artifacts with lasting impact.

Working entirely with stainless steel to craft these extraordinary impressive sculptures, Hague also employs a material language to communicate ideas of strength, tension and fragility, playing with our expectations of form and what could be considered ‘classic’. Ultimately, this body of work invites us to consider the meaning we ascribe to things and our motivations and fears as humans; creatures subject to mortality and yet capable somehow of striving towards the immortal in spite of our inevitable fate.

Photography by;
Annika Kafcaloudis

MARTYN THOMPSON STUDIO
Sep 26 - Oct 16

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‘HARD AND SOFT’
Exhibition 

Like the distinctive jacquard textiles and painted glazed ceramics they produce, Martyn Thompson’s body of work is a richly layered tapestry of influences, threads and patterns that reflects a creative life spanning multiple mediums and habitats. Now based in Sydney after a number of years living abroad, Thompson continues to develop their voracious creative appetite, producing pieces which speak to his affinity for interior life and which satisfy their hunger for ultimate expression. For their new show SOFT and HARD, launching at OIGÅLL PROJECTS in late September, the artist explores the sinuous layers between fabrication and the creative impulse, which Thompson aligns with a fluid, sexual energy that fuses and gels together various forms and concepts.

This impulse is seen as a driving force, intrinsic to the process of production and reproduction, and is made tangible in the resulting materials and forms which these forces consume and regenerate. Comprising a series of new ceramic and glass works and jacquard wall textiles, as well as a series of plinths comprised of found objects and newly made objects, Thompson embraces this concept of reproduction and production throughout the entire show. Holding on tenderly to the familiar, while embracing new forms with curiosity and hedonistic delight, Thompson continues to build upon their aesthetic vision, immersing themselves in a world of their own creation and inviting others to explore it.


Photography by;
Annika Kafcaloudis