Oceanic

Oceanic brought Fintan Magee and Askew One together at RexRomae’s temporary Shoreditch space in July 2014. Curated by Rom Levy, the exhibition placed the Australian and New Zealand artists’ studio work alongside murals made inside and outside the venue.

Magee presented works on paper, while Askew One developed six works on Plexiglas. The different surfaces offered distinct ways of carrying their visual languages into the exhibition, with the surrounding murals keeping the relationship to architectural scale in view.

The presentation allowed visitors to move between formats rather than separate the artists’ street and studio practices. An image could be encountered at close range on paper or through the physical presence of a painted wall, making shifts of material and scale part of the curatorial experience.

Oceanic reflects RexRomae’s use of temporary spaces as places for focused collaborations: exhibitions in which the character of a location and the work produced there are developed together.