BALANCE

Artists Adam York Gregory and Gillian Jane Lees present BALANCE, a durational performance that results in a sculptural installation.  Following the creation of a sculpture through a durational performance on Saturday 31 January, the completed sculpture will be on display in the gallery from Monday 2 - Friday 6 February.

How has work changed your body? How has it changed how you view your body?  Gillian stands on one end of a balanced plank opposite a large block of concrete.  Over the course of six hours, she walks along the plank to the concrete and chips away at the concrete with a chisel, occasionally returning to the other side to check their relative weights until the see-saw balances perfectly.  The concrete becomes a sculptural equivalent of Gillian, a likeness in mass.

A self-portrait, baring all the scars of the work that made it.  Gillian Jane Lees is a performance practitioner, undertaking physically demanding and mentally exhausting durational performances.  Adam York Gregory is a visual artist, writer and filmmaker. He's interested in the connections betweenseemingly disparate subjects and how meaning can be found through exploration.

'potent, unsettling and discomforting, about success and failure, endurance and breakdown', Lyn Gardner.