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Category : Exhibition

26 Mar 2024
24 Oct 2022

Sacellum Deux exhibition at Mario’s Cafe

Tuesday 18 October to Monday 7 November 2022

After a 2 year lockdown delay, this boutique art concert is terrorising the established walls of Mario’s in Brunswick St.
Thankyou @artseleven & Mario’s for the invite and thank you @melanie_caple for the clever curation.
Get yourself in for a feed on art, food and wine!

23 Sep 2022

Bakehouse Studios Art Project

Thrilled to cop a 2 week slot on the coveted Bakehouse Studio walls on Hoddle St, Richmond in September 2022. Thank you Helen and Quincey for the opportunity to spread my scent!

10 Jun 2022

Sacellum exhibition hanging video

Video of the Sacellum exhibition, June 2022 at fortyfivedownstairs.

10 Jun 2022
08 Jun 2022

Sunday Arts magazine interview

Interview on JOY FM Sunday Arts program (5 June 2022) for Sacellum and Gavin Brown’s After the Fire at fortyfivedownstairs

07 Jun 2022

Sacellum exhibition preview video

Promotional video for the Sacellum exhibition, June 2022 at fortyfivedownstairs.

14 May 2022

Sacellum, 2022

See Exhibition page here

Exhibition at fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne.

Exhibition Runs Tuesday 7 June – Saturday 18 June 2022. Open night Friday 10 June, 6pm – 8pm

Tues to Fri: 12pm – 6pm, Sat: 12pm – 4pm, Tues & Fri evenings 6pm8pm

Previews by appointment chris@chrisorr.com.au

sacellum: a small chapel within a church, or a sanctuary dedicated to a deity

Sacellum is an infected confection of the sacred and technology. A melancholic wink at consumerism and spirituality. A dialogue between a certain past and an uncertain future.

The artist reclaims engravings of Renaissance images and layers them with a mélange of modern detritus – from aluminium cans to discarded laptop motherboards – scanned at ultra-high resolution to reveal surprising new views and hidden landscapes.

Technology is as omnipotent and omnipresent as religion once was, controlling what we see and feel, for better or worse. In the past, priests and preachers were the exclusive producers of cultural propaganda, but today this role is subsumed by the ubiquity of our devices and our connection to the internet.

Sacellum is a contemplation of this control of our hearts and minds; a moving patternation of the contemporary and the classical. The portals of belief continue to look over us, providing a glimmer of hope for what lies ahead.

13 Mar 2021

10 artists in 10 weeks

Street front art @melbournestyle_gallery in Clarendon St, Sth Melbourne for the week 13-20 March 2021, part of The Art Hunter’s “10 artists in 10 weeks”.

30 May 2019

“Conventicle” exhibition walk-thru video

Pre-opening walk-thru of “Conventicle” exhibition by Chris Orr at fortyfivedownstairs, 25 May 2019.