David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton - Between World's

10 April – 24 May 2015

Between Worlds presents the first comprehensive survey of artworks by David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton, who have worked collaboratively since 2005. The exhibition incorporates kinetic sculptures, installations and photographs depicting the twilight spaces between seeing and knowing, natural and supernatural, existence and absence.

The artists draw inspiration from popular forms of art and entertainment both past and present, incorporating elements of pre-cinematic optical illusions, traditional museum displays and theatrical magic with iconic snippets of film, photography and history to explore existential questions of life, death, work and human relationships.

This exhibition features several key collaborative projects, including notable works remade or reconfigured by the artists specifically for the exhibition. Also included are two significant early solo works, which reveal formative elements and influences that continue to inform the collaboration.

David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton are Sydney-based artists who have worked collaboratively since 2005. Both undertook a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, graduating with First Class Honours in 2003 and 2002 respectively. Middleton also holds a Master of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts, which she gained in 2008. 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, as well as various private collections.

Recent exhibitions include Mind the Gap at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Living in the Ruins of the Twentieth Century at UTS Gallery, Sydney; The Hunt at Gallery 9, Sydney (both 2013); Time & Vision at the Bargehouse Gallery, London (2012); New Acquisitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; and Abandon Normal Devices at FACT, Liverpool, UK (both 2009).

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