Somewhere I’ve Been

GEMMA BROWN & EMMA PINSENT

Curated by Niamh Armstrong

2 - 11 February 2024, CCAS Manuka

Working with materials from somewhere they’ve been, artists Gemma Brown and Emma Pinsent reconfigure waste, organic matter and the traces of anthropogenic intervention as a means to explore the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Utilising site-responsive ceramic and sculptural processes, Brown and Pinsent each investigate the meetings between people and place that transform, shape and erode the sites we visit. Incorporating traces and sediments of past encounters, the materiality of Brown and Pinsent’s work brings forward our own entanglement in ecological change, highlighting our relationship to the land as one both sacred and fraught.

Niamh Armstrong is an emerging curator who completed an internship with CCAS in 2023. Somewhere I’ve Been is the culmination of Niamh’s time at CCAS. 

Image above:

Gemma Brown Installation view (detail) 2023, photo by Brenton McGeachie

Image below:

Emma Pinsent Weather we’re together (detail) 2023, found objects, stoneware, glass, bronze, photo by Emily Dimozantos