Louise Zhang & Dylan Batty

Louise Zhang and Dylan Batty explore aspects of beauty and history through the re-appropriation of personal and cultural artefacts. With specific focus on the hand-made, their practice seeks understanding, through bridging their stark aesthetic, social, and cultural differences. Conceived in 2020, artists Louise Zhang (b.1991) & Dylan Batty (b.1994) begun exploring the potentials of a collaborative practice.

Vessel with orchid (study), 2022
epoxy clay, polyurethane, orchid, flatback pearls
50 x 20 x 20 cm
Image: Jessica Maurer

Lattice table (shrine altar table), 2022
hand made table coated in satin 2-pack paint
45 x 180 x 50 cm

Building upon ideas of tradition and craft, Lattice table (shrine altar table) presents a space of worship and mourning for ancestors and family, bringing forth the happiness and joy of time spent together. The hand made table appropriates those family altars found in Qidu, reflecting the deep importance of tradition, building upon these traditions through alternate contexts, ultimately evolving them as a means of personal celebration

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Scholar Rock Study (Rockdale), 2020
found concrete, pine, automotive pigment, resin, epoxy clay
24 x 16 x 10cm
Image: Zan Wimberley

Part of a new series, Scholar Rock Study (Rockdale) re-examines the traditions and archetypes of the Scholar Rock. Originally coveted for their highly specific traits of asymmetry, sound, texture, surface, and representation of landscape, the work interprets these specifications through contemporary contexts.