Futuro II (should we try again Tracy?) | Richard Stride
    
    Dates: 20 September - 11 October 2014
    Where: NCCA's Box Set
    From: Current Projects
    Medium: Acrylic on MDF board, steel, wood, fake grass and Postpak box.
    Writer: Maurice O'Riordan

Artist Bio:

Richard Stride is an emerging visual artist, living and working in Brisbane. He completed a Fine Art degree with honours at Queensland University of Technology in 2010, and currently works primarily in drawing and object-based formats, while occasionally delving into other mediums. Richard’s practice is driven by a curiosity of the built environment and the tensions evident in it. It particularly seeks to question the contemporary role of geometry in regard to our experience of simplicity and complexity, and order and disorder. His work also explores the form and function of everyday objects and their potential for abstraction and metaphysical meaning. Richard has exhibited at galleries such as Metro Arts and Ryan Renshaw Gallery, and has created large scale installations for events like National Youth Week and the Woodford Folk Festival.

www.richardstride.com

Exhibition Statement

Designed in Finland, the Futuro House was a utopian, mass-produced house dispatched around the world in parts to be assembled on site. One Futuro House was erected in Darwin, but in 1974 cyclone Tracy put an end to its very brief existence. Its base structure was the only part left standing with the main ovoid section destroyed, scattered and ultimately lost. Futuro II (should we try again Tracy?) explores the resurrection of new modified Futuro Houses in Darwin through the problematic utopian lens of architectural representations. As the only part that survived, the base has been recreated and dispatched to NCCA, along with the new design representations to be left for local determination.

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