Hoarding Commissions

 

New large-scale works of art by Dylan Mooney and Izabela Pluta will be on display at this busy pedestrian intersection to enliven the precinct with the artists' unique interpretations of renewal, anticipation, and change.

 

Izabela Pluta is a locally-based artist born in Poland, whose practice spans photography and installation. She uses her art to examine ideas of impermanence and belonging, and for her 40-meter long commission Pluta has captured Newcastle Art Gallery at this expectant moment in its history. Before construction commenced, Izabela documented the Gallery's interior with film and digital photography, and created lumen prints by placing photographic paper in the shafts of afternoon light that moved across the floor of the Gallery from its windows. These images have been digitally layered to create her commission on Laman Street titled Sleep Rhythms (2023). This collage of images can be thought of as a cumulative portrait of Newcastle Art Gallery at a moment of transformation.

 

These works of art will be on display until late-April 2024, following this the hoarding will be refreshed with a second round of commissioned works by Diana Baker-Smith and Agus Wijaya from May. Accompanying each of these presentations will be a range of public programs offering deeper insights into the artists, ideas, and processes that have formed these new large-scale commissions.

Izabela Pluta is a locally based, Polish born Australian artist. Pluta’s studio practice spans photography and installation, engaging with questions of impermanence and belonging. She creates her layered images through many working methods: by experiencing places and conducting photographic fieldwork, by undertaking imaging processes to capture environmental phenomena, and by using found images that arise in her research. By bringing these many sources together and uniting them in her work, Pluta reveals the complexities of both the production processes and viewer perceptions that lie behind photographic images. Izabela Pluta, Sleep Rhythms, 2023, digital collage comprising gelatin silver photographs and lumen prints, reproduced as a digital print in four parts.

 

Izabela Pluta is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.

Image: Izabela Pluta, Sleep Rhythms, 2023 (detail), Digital collage comprising gelatin silver photographs and lumen prints, reproduced as a digital print in four parts