Ebb and Flow
the Overview Effect
7–24 August 2024
Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
77ᵒ 50´N - 13ᵒ 19´E The Recession. 2014.
Pigment inkjet print on rag paper. 500 x 2200 (edition of 5).
Printed by Michel Szczepanski, C-Lab, Uni. Melb.
Felicity Spear’s solo show Ebb and Flow: the Overview Effect is coming to Stephen McLaughlan Gallery 7–24 August 2024.
Ebb and Flow: the Overview Effect
Listening Earth
Felicity Spear: Echo
Charcoal & pastel on archival paper
Fields have eyes and forests have ears and I will hear if I remain silent and listen.
Biosphere – a sense of belonging
Felicity Spear: On reflection – ebb and flow
Inkjet print
Felicity Spear: Darkness falls (after Melanodes anthracitaria)
Charcoal & Conté on paper
Beneath Nature’s seductive surfaces lies a deep sense of pathos revealed in the destructive power of humanity.
Biosphere – a sense of belonging
Umwelten – eco-fields and other universes
Felicity Spear: Umwelten
Oil on wood
Speculations about the possibilities for other habitats or other universes beyond our sensorium.
Umwelten—eco-fields and other universes
Out there: in light of remote possibilities
A sound work created from star radio frequency samples.
The Sky Lab Project
Felicity Spear: Shifting Boundaries
The cultures and technologies associated with sky-situated knowledge are entering the public consciousness. Increasingly we look beyond our planet to speculate about cosmic signs in our everyday world, the relationship between Earth and sky, and our future and place in the universe. The author and astronomer John Barrow writes:
We feel like the Universe’s only child and that has many consequences.
In 2009 Felicity Spear curated the first Sky Lab exhibition to coincide with the International Year of Astronomy. Since then she has worked with a core group of artists to develop the projcet.
- 2009 / Sky Lab / Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
- 2011 / Sky Lab: from where you stand / Stephen McLaughlan Gallery, Melbourne
- 2013 / Sky Lab / Latrobe Regional Gallery Morwell, Victoria
- 2015 / Sky Lab: lines of sight & forces of attraction / Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne
- 2016 / Sky Lab: Kepler’s Dream / La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre Bendigo, Victoria
Felicity Spear »
Working with a range of media, Felicity Spear’s art practice has evolved through interests in history and art-historical images, optical phenomena, light and space, mapping and abstraction, and the relationship between the natural and constructed world as they are revealed through art and science and the mechanics of image capture.
Exhibitions »
Umwelten 2 (2019)
Oil on wood