GIN AGAIN BE
Luke Chiswell

GIN AGAIN BE is an ode to the beginning, the finish, and the beginning again.

Developed over the past year in New York, the exhibition brings together a new body of work by Australian artist Luke Chiswell, spanning painting, relief printing, sculpture, metal fabrication, sand casting, and experimental processes.

Across these works, Chiswell considers making as a continual process of becoming. An idea begins with intention, moves through the hand and the material, changes along the way, and arrives somewhere unexpected. The finished work is not an endpoint, but another beginning.

Language, repetition, and transformation run throughout the exhibition. Influenced by asemic writing, Chiswell breaks apart letters and words, allowing language to move beyond communication and become image, gesture, rhythm, and mark. Invented tools extend the hand, while materials are repeatedly altered, broken, recast, and reconsidered.

GIN AGAIN BE embraces the space between control and chance, failure and discovery, beginning and ending. It is a reflection on persistence: the instinct to try again, to look again, to make again.

To start is to imagine a possibility. To finish is to let it go. To begin again is to see what else might be possible.