Carrion

The Woodpile Collective

May 18 to June 16, 2012

For the large scale installation Carrion, The Woodpile Collective transforms Deluge Contemporary Art into a multimedia outpost broadcasting from an abandoned tent in the primeval west coast rainforest. Dense calligraphic codes, mutable cartography and the tracery of strange habitation combine with emanations of mysterious flora and fauna in transmissions from the past and future.

The Woodpile Collective (Blythe Hailey, Sean McLaughlin, Shawn O'Keefe) creates works that are both fantastic and familiar. Citing varied influences from traditional and contemporary art production—especially the confluence of abstraction and decomposition to be found where nature abuts urban culture—the process of their collaboration is free-flowing and always open to one another’s mediation. As the collective steps up to the canvas it paints as one: six hands and three minds grappling in the moment and processing each other’s marks. Its artistic output unfolds as a conversation between friends. The Woodpile Collective’s work can be found in both conventional gallery settings, public and private collections and unexpected public art drops throughout the city of Victoria and beyond.