Nicholas Burridge draws upon practice-based research to unpack the complex relationship between industrialization and nature. His work interrogates the term ‘Terraforming’ focusing attention upon the ways that humans are re-engineering the earth and our current geologic epoch the Anthropocene. Many of Burridge’s projects are site specific with multiple experimental outcomes, this has led to him having research residencies at Melbournes Living Museum of the West, Canberra Glassworks, The Quarry and Jacks Magazine a heritage munitions warehouse. In all these instances the aim has been to reveal latent narratives and metaphors that are embedded in materials.

Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
07 October/ 12 November 2023

NICHOLAS BURRIDGE
Stone Tools

The oldest examples of human technology ‘Stone Tools’ will be some of the longest-lasting anthropic artefacts. With this starting point the artworks included in this exhibition interrogate modern materials and their inherent instability. Now favouring steel over stone, the ability of materials to resist entropy has reduced and with that their ability to become artefacts. Materials within this exhibition have been selected because of their stability be that mechanical or chemical resistance and those properties have been exploited. This exhibition contrasts modern technologies and materials with ancient ones to interrogate which narratives will remain when we’ve gone.

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