Tim Sterling and Troy Innocent

Tim Sterling, Platzangst and Troy Innocent, Asemic Writing 1

Hugo Michell Gallery

Opening night, 21^st March 6pm

Running 21^st March to 27^th April

With technical precision and high attention to detail, Tim Sterling is an artist who builds worlds. Platzangst, the title of his the exhibition at Hugo Michell Gallery, is a German word used for both agoraphobia and claustrophobia, a double meaning referencing anxiety felt in places and spaces. Using industrial materials, in this case Sterling opts for plywood, he constructs intricate installations from small repeated elements; a multitude of tiny ply H beams form a larger architectural structure. Sterling also explores space and perspective through drawing. A repeated texta dash forms a wall of bricks that balances precariously and threatens collapse, fraying at the edges.

Alongside Tim Sterling, Hugo Michell is showing work by transmedia artist Troy Innocent whose exhibition, Asemic Writing 1, uses urban street culture and graffiti tagging to explore systems of language and communication. Like Sterling, Innocent builds worlds through looking at how individual elements construct systems. Innocent has developed a program that produces a language of glyphs through recombining marks and gestures used in tags. The indecipherable language looks familiar, but doesn’t mean anything and can be read only for its aesthetic value.

Tim Sterling, Page 3, 4 (detail), 2012

Troy Innocent , autograf, 2009, asemic writing system program

TEXT: Copyright Adele Sliuzas, originally published on the thousands