LEWIS FIDOCK & JOSHUA PETHERICK

For when in the company of their work, disorientating emotions and sensations are evoked, chiefly played out via this interplay of horror and humour, with abstraction, absurdity, the macabre and surreal also close by. Fidock & Petherick achieve this richness through the traditional artistic foundations of materials and techniques, they are true craftsmen, carefully considering what should be used and how it should be applied to achieve their conceptual goal. Accompanied by a detailed attention to atmosphere, the result is a practice speaking to the real world and its contained ontology, but seemingly coming from a parallel space/place.

Fidock & Petherick both live and work in Melbourne; their work has been exhibited at leading local intuitions, including The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2023); Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2017); and TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria (2016). Additional exhibitions featuring their work has taken place at: 1301SW, Melbourne (2024); Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney (2023); Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand (2021); Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (2020); Sydney, Sydney (2019); First Draft, Sydney (2018); and Minerva, Sydney (2017).4 George St, South Melbourne, 3205 VIC 3 Hiles St, Alexandria, 2015 NSW

Text courtesy 1301SW.