This exhibition presents a series of works that emulate the scale and dimensions of scrolling billboards, until recently found on bus-stops around Perth. These billboards, like buses themselves, give movement to the landscape of images, and akin to cinema, can provide us with a series of views while we remain still. The scrolling function of these billboards, resembling the smaller scrolling image-scape of our phones and computer surfaces, is another form of engagement we have with the world: just as the landscape of images passes us by on our phones, so one passes us by both behind and upon the perforated screen of the bus window. It is this kaleidoscopic parallax that this project is based on.

The images in this exhibition form an investigation of the paraphernalia and detritus of the world that these billboards look out onto or disguise: streets with abandoned shopping carts, construction sites with broken mono-bloc chairs, cigarette butt filled gutters and shattered beer bottles on sidewalks. These objects form another part of this image-scape, they are the discarded infrastructure of our ravenous consumption of the world and images.

This work brings these two visual experiences into alignment in order to consider the divergences and paradoxes of images that exist within and create urban spaces, and the spaces themselves.

Graham Mathwin studied at Curtin University (BA; Fine Arts, Hons, 2015), His group shows include I’ll love you tomorrow, Success Gallery, Perth, 2016; Hatched National Graduate Show, PICA, Perth, 2016; and Worldline, Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, 2017. His solo shows include Twice a day, every day, it fails, Free Range Gallery, Perth, 2017; Take Care, Moana Project Space, Perth, 2017; and Eager Beaver, Outer Space, Brisbane; 2019. He is currently engaged doing Higher Degree Research in Art at Curtin University.