Lincoln Austin - Somewhere between love and an argument

Through mutual material research, experimentation, and making, Kirralee Robinson and Lincoln Austin investigated their individual practices, with the intention of leading each other into new collaborative territory. Somewhere Between Love and an Argument, a gallery-based residency, focused on sharing and candid exchange, free from the expectation of a pre-defined outcome. Through occupying space together, shared reading, research, and frank conversation the two artists mapped out points of convergence and difference in their practice, approach, and character. Through this experience co-authored artworks were continually devised, constructed, altered, and deconstructed.

Collaboration can be defined as ‘the action of working with someone to produce something’. However, it can also be ‘a traitorous cooperation with an enemy’. The title for this project humorously, anticipating moments of both sympatico and the possibility of individual ego’s fighting to be heard and understood.

For 3-4 days/week over 4 weeks, the artists occupied, experimented, and produced in Wreckers Art Space. Other artists were invited to join, bringing their unique skillset and experience. The project generated a dialogue which questioned authenticity, ownership, and permenance, while encouraging sharing and allowing access to the various artist’s processes. All participants were prompted to consider the physical space, not as a gallery, but as a resource or material to be acknowledged, explored, understood, and utilised.

On the final day of the project a public event was held over 4 hours, whatever artworks/interventions that survived the editing, revising, or remaking process were presented. Revision and reorientation of the space continued throughout the event.

Artists involved

Kirrralee Robinson

Lincoln Austin

Louis Lim

Claire Grant

Mark DePotier

Lyle Williams

Keemon Williams

Neil Moorehead

Mari Harata

Judy Laws

Micha Rustichelli

Caroline Austin

Louis Tidd

Ruby Yu-Lu Yeh

This project took place on the unceded country of the Yuggera and Turrbal peoples. All participants acknowledge the traditional custodians of this site and wish to pay thier respects to elders past, present, and emerging. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.