Submission
March 01, 2024

Glue Paintings

David Attwood @Bill’s PC, Western Australia
February 03 — March 04, 2024

Installation view

The exhibition presents two new works; a series of ‘glue paintings’, and a found object in the form of a Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle.

The paintings are made by glossing the packaging of various Apple products with PVC cement – a quick-setting plumbing adhesive used to seal high pressure pipes. This treatment leaves the Apple insignia mostly visible, though crudely tinted in a noxious green, recasting the packages as highlyreflective monochromes.

The Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle occupies most of the gallery space, forming an  obstruction that makes it difficult to enter, or to get a close look at the paintings. Fortunately they’ve been documented and  are already available to view online.

Upon request an additional painting is viewable in a non-gallery part of the building; a dimly lit cavity that provides service access to the cisterns of an adjacent toilet block.

The works within the exhibition reflect upon the conditions of viewership. They speak of the  entrepreneurial nature of contemporary artist-run spaces, and of contemporary life in general.

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Robert Barry 2024 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle 210 x 150 x 70 cm
Robert Barry 2024 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle 210 x 150 x 70 cm
Robert Barry 2024 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle 210 x 150 x 70 cm
Robert Barry 2024 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle 210 x 150 x 70 cm
Robert Barry 2024 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle 210 x 150 x 70 cm
Robert Barry 2024 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle 210 x 150 x 70 cm
Robert Barry 2024 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle 210 x 150 x 70 cm
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
Installation view
Glue Painting (Keyboard #2) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 36 x 13 x 3 cm
Glue Painting (Keyboard #2) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 36 x 13 x 3 cm
Glue Painting (Watch #1) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 33 x 7 x 6 cm
Glue Painting (Watch #1) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 33 x 7 x 6 cm
Glue Painting (MacBook) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 33 x 24 x 7 cm
Glue Painting (MacBook) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 33 x 24 x 7 cm
Glue Painting (MacBook) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 33 x 24 x 7 cm
Glue Painting (MacBook) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 33 x 24 x 7 cm
Glue Painting (AirPods #1) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Glue Painting (AirPods #1) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Glue Painting (Keyboard #1) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 46 x 14 x 5 cm
Glue Painting (Keyboard #1) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 46 x 14 x 5 cm
Glue Painting (AirPods #2) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Glue Painting (AirPods #2) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Glue Painting (AirPods #2) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Glue Painting (AirPods #2) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 10 x 10 x 4 cm
Installation view
Glue Painting (Power Adapter) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 18 x 15 x 5 cm
Glue Painting (Power Adapter) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 18 x 15 x 5 cm
Glue Painting (Power Adapter) 2024 Apple-ware packaging, PVC cement. 18 x 15 x 5 cm

Glue Paintings
David Attwood

Bill’s PC, Western Australia
February 03 — March 04, 2024

Photography: All images copyright and courtesy of the artist and the gallery.

David Attwood (1990) is an artist based in  Boorloo/Perth. Recent exhibitions include The Post New, Moore Contemporary, Perth, 2023; A Commodity Is A Strange Thing,  Cellar Door, Sydney; Magic Vacuum, Disneyland Paris, Perth, 2023; New Beasts of Burden, Low Gallery, Riga, 2022; An Appetite for Servitude, scatalogicalritesofallnations, London, 2022;  Dust Blaster, Savage Garden, Melbourne,  2022; The Last Bastion of Laziness, Metro Arts, Brisbane, 2021; sala-jardín-bar: I Believe in God, Only I Call It Nature, Lodos Gallery, Mexico City, 2021; WFH, STATION, Sydney 2020; Teenagers, Lon Gallery,  Melbourne, 2019; Jugo, Biquini Wax EPS,  Mexico City, 2019; A Decadent Defecation, Bus Projects, Melbourne, 2018.

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