A very serious, sweet, sick dream world is a spatial exploration of how a neurodiverse existence feels from the perspective of fem-presenting individuals.
2 – 25 November 2022
Opening night: Thursday 3 November, 5.30-7.30pm. Free, but RSVP essential via Eventbrite.
Sickly & Nauseous (Holly Goodridge, Grace Martyn, Josephine Ayton), installation image, 2021. Courtesy the artists.
A very serious, sweet, sick dream world is a spatial exploration of how a neurodiverse existence feels from the perspective of fem presenting individuals. Neurodiversity is often presented as an experience that is had in isolation. We began this collaboration as a way to showcase a synergetic art-making process that gives the audience an embodied multi-sensorial experience from our neurodivergent perspective.
Through this hybridisation of drawing, the ready-made, soft sculpture and installation, this project will have painting as a medium transcending its two-dimensional limitations, in the same way, this collaborative project will be subverting the traditional understanding of what neurodiversity looks like outside of the cis-male body.
Fully living in our neurodiversity and bringing it to the forefront of our lives is the single most important act of resistance. In previous stages of our lives we have felt misplaced, but now coming together we have found community and have created our own sanctuary. This is the contribution we are making through our art, building the spaces that fit us comfortably.
About the artists
The Sickly & Nauseous collective came about after four RMIT students Holly Goodridge, Elloise Arabol Alexander, Josephine Ayton and Grace Martyn created an open discussion about the difficulties of experiencing neurodiversity in a non-cis-male body.
The four are Naarm, Melbourne based contemporary multi-disciplinary artist producing documents that occur at the intersection of painting, sculptural objects and installation.
Instagram: @hollygoodridgeart, @smellycheese_a, @josephine.aart, @gross.martini.
