Past | Lustrous Rubble

Karima Baadilla | Kathleen Harvey | Brooke Van Der Linden

Lustrous Rubble brings together the work of Karima Baadilla, Kathleen Harvey and Brooke Van Der Linden, illuminating the spontaneity in painting and collage. In their distinct practices, Karima, Kathleen and Brooke traverse stages of contemplation and impulsivity. They each alter the everyday, whether it be through found materials or colour itself, and at times, conjure up an entirely new reality.

Join us to celebrate Friday 18 December, 5-6pm

Karima Baadilla, Purple Sky, Oil on Found Board

Karima Baadilla / My painting practice explores the emotional and psychological aspects of a person’s life, and is informed by my own personal quest to find my place in the world as a migrant settler in Australia. Painting new paintings on top of old paintings is a way to create spaces on existing ones, understanding that the present is made up from elements of the past. Painting directly on top of another painting is not about erasing the past, but creating a new perspective , a mosaic of things that makes a new place.

Brooke Van Der Linder, detail from Utopia/Oblivion, Textile installation (2019)

Brooke Van Der Linden is a queer multidisciplinary artist interested in collecting and repurposing materials. Brooke completed their Fine Art Honours at RMIT in 2019 and has worked almost exclusively with a repertoire of found imagery, sourced from second-hand books and magazines, since 2012. Their practice spans from analogue and digital collage, to large scale textile-based installation, as they investigate the tension between analogue and digital landscapes symptomatic of contemporaneity.

Kathleen Harvey is a multidisciplinary artist engaged with a conversion of form between painting and video, through the choreography of pigment and light. Her work explores the various tensions that exist within our sensuous registration of colour, through digital and material mediums.