Joshua de Gruchy
Watching a story
21 June - 18 August 2024
We are excited to present Watching a story, a solo exhibition of recent work by Broken Hill-based artist Joshua de Gruchy.
Joshua is an artist currently living on Wilyakali Country in far west New South Wales. Having spent time exploring remote areas across Australia, the landscape has become de Gruchy’s primary muse, influencing his palette and lyrical style of mark making through a variety of mediums and raw materials.
Embedded with personal stories and developing concepts, Joshua’s work balances between the abstract and the figurative; experimenting with colour, line and form to understand how a place or memory can be recalled without being defined.
Top image: Friends of slag at Joshua de Gruchy: Watching a story, opening night, 20 June 2024. Photo: Em Jensen. Bottom image: Installation view, Joshua de Gruchy: Watching a story, 21 June - 18 August 2024. Photo: Em Jensen.
under|visible
20 April - 2 June 2024
David Doyle, Liisa Peisto, Ann Evers, Badger Bates, Bilyara Bates, Clark Barrett, Marita Dyson, Si Yi (Iris) Shen, Zena Cumpston, Joshua de Gruchy, Graeme Armstrong, Lyndy Marshall, Blake Griffiths, Alex Rosenblum, Jonathan McBurnie, Naomi Wild, Krystle Evans, The Broken Hill Hollow Earth Society, Kelly Leonard, Gritta Walker, Susan Thomas, and Asma d. Mather
This group exhibition invites artists and the public to respond to the slag heap as both site and metaphor.
The slag heap is a by-product of smelting ores and recycled metals. It exists in the middle of Broken Hill, Wilyakali Country.
If you live in Broken Hill, the slag heap is the backdrop to your life, even when you can’t see it.
We are interested in what it means to live alongside the slag heap and how its presence contains contradictions. This exhibition is a platform for conversations around complex relationships between people and the land.
Top image: Installation view, under|visible, 20 April - 2 June 2024. Photo: Em Jensen. Middle image: Installation view of Gritta Walker, those black shining heaps (2024), as part of under|visible, 20 April - 2 June 2024. Photo: Em Jensen. Bottom image: Installation view, under|visible, 20 April - 2 June 2024. Photo: Em Jensen.
2023 Fundraiser
1 December - 10 December 2023
Slag Heap Projects gallery space is opened its doors with an inaugural fundraiser event! A night of art, auctions, performances and drag, our very own Amanda Screetly oversaw the fun.
The line up was exceptional, featuring the work of 30+ contemporary artists from Far West NSW and beyond.
Liisa (Salma) Peisto, Zena Cumpston, Megan Gilbert, Bonnie Quayle, Annika Romeyn, Jacob Boylan, Asma d. Mather, Badger Bates, Anthony Hayward, Nici Cumpston, X Daisy (Dale Collier), Tannya Quayle, Esther Olssen, Jonathan McBurnie, Bernie Gooley, Joshua de Gruchy, The Broken Hill Hollow Earth Society, Brian Nunan, David Aldous - Weighted Lines, Jason Sank, Verity Nunan, Rick Ball, Lyndy Marshall, Gareth Owens, Blake Griffiths, Ruby Davies, Graeme Armstrong, Alexandra Rosenblum, Clark Barrett, Marita Dyson, Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse, Naomi Wild, Iris Shen, Krystle Evans, Dan Schulz, Hannah Bertram and David Doyle
All funds raised are supporting Slag Heap Projects’ 2024 operations and projects, enabling us to pay artists and arts workers, deliver professional development and produce high-level exhibition and research outcomes.
Top image: Installation view, 2023 Fundraiser, featuring work by Rick Ball, Gareth Owens, Lyndy Marshall, Blake Griffiths, Ruby Davies, Graeme Armstrong and Alexandra Rosenblum (L-R). Photo: Hester Lyon. Bottom images: Slag Heap Projects: 2023 Fundraiser, Opening Night, 1 December 2023. Photo: Dan Schulz.