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Lots of work in progress for two exhibitions later in 2017.

1/9/2017

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'IN THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST'

6/7/2016

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“At the basis of the whole modern view of the world lies the illusion that the so-called laws of nature are the explanations of natural phenomena. So people stop short at natural laws as at something unassailable, as did the ancients at God and Fate… We make to ourselves pictures of facts.”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

The act of making a picture has always been an act of transgression, pouring a thought once private into the public realm. But what is transgression? What is the point at which ‘going beyond’ becomes the pornographic, the voyeuristic, the iconoclastic? Do these terms have any currency now?

These images and sculptures are raw. They hide nothing. We are watching, and we are being watched. Open mouths, open vessels, dark and tempting. The emptiness and its accompanying silence allows us to release deeper, carnal responses. We seek our native tongue in the mouth of the beast.

We see a girl. Is she fleeing? Dancing? Masked? Disfigured? Is she, indeed, human? 
Is she the object of a male desire, or the creation?

A man kneels on the ground, around his neck a human skull on a chain. Is he a shaman or a captive?
Is he invoking a spirit or awaiting his fate? 

And the beasts. Uninterested in our gaze, devoid of care beyond the moment of copulation, we see the act in its violence and beauty. Death is a possibility, it is never far from the frame. 

We are the watchers, the almost-casual onlookers.  But these works solicit the deviant thought, the stolen glance. We dress our thoughts in the cloth of reason and natural law but inwardly desire them to be ripped away; to see the displays of muscle and sinew for what they are - lust in action. 

Lust in action. The peasant, the tribespeople, the countryman live in the immediate world of husbandry, the day-to-day business of mating stock and breeding. Their taboos, their superstitions are not ours. Their invocations implore the rising of the seed, the the transfer of semen, the successful coupling. They know the act in its entirety, the spider devouring its partner, the intricate, brutal, bursting bee endophallus, the tupping sheep, the roving bitch in heat, the rampant bull. 

In these works seduction and courtship take second place to violent displays of power and dark incantations to the unseen. It is a serenade to sexuality.

“Whereas we believe lightning to be released as a result of the collision of clouds, they believe that the clouds collide so as to release lightning: for as they attribute all to deity, they are led to believe not that things have a meaning insofar as they occur, but rather that they occur because they must have a meaning.” 

- Seneca on the Etruscan system of belief


- Caleb Cluff

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Image: The seed is struck, the pleasure's done, 2016.
charcoal on primed paper
690 x 880mm framed
$1800
Contact: [email protected]
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OPEN NOW - The Mouth of the Beast

6/3/2016

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Exhibition opening
Saturday, 4th June, 2pm until 4pm

Please join us for opening drinks at The Mouth of the Beast, an exhibition of bronze sculptures and charcoal drawings by Joelle Mayberry and Tiffany Titshall.

Space 39, level 2, 39 Little Collins Street, Melbourne.

“These images and sculptures are raw. They hide nothing. We are watching, and we are being watched. Open mouths, open vessels, dark and tempting. The emptiness and its accompanying silence allows us to release deeper, carnal responses. We seek our native tongue in the mouth of the beast.” - Caleb Cluff

Exhibition runs 2nd - 15th June 2016. Gallery open daily 11am until 6pm.
​For more information or a catalogue preview email
[email protected] 

​#themouthofthebeast #space39
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'In looks and lips that can no more dissemble'

6/1/2016

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In looks and lips that can no more dissemble, 2016
I began exploring seduction, courtship and desire and I landed somewhere between carnal thrills of the flesh and the notion of voyeuristic pleasure. I wanted to see the rituals of seduction and the thrill of the chase, unbridled.

​Tiffany Titshall

#themouthofthebeast #space39 #charcoaldrawing #artwork #majorcastudio #poetry #quotes #progress
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out-of-doors

5/31/2016

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 "It’s queer the way we use the word ‘beastly’ as an adjective for the gross and degraded, the sort of thing we rightly call ‘dirty’. To a naturalist such talk sounds strange. Actually, love among nature’s creatures is no mere brutal carnality. It is a thing of a thousand graces. It expresses itself in lovely and amazing gestures of courtship, in deep devotions, in tender ways." - Alan Devoe
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Detail: out-of-doors, 2016.

#themouthofthebeast #space39 #charcoaldrawing #artwork #majorcastudio #poetry #quotes #reference
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Drawing 'Love Play'

5/29/2016

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"The slit moon only emphasised how blood must flow and teeth must grip"

5/24/2016

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SONG FOR A BIRTH OR A DEATH by ©Elizabeth Jennings

Last night I saw the savage world
And heard the blood beat up the stair;
The fox’s bark, the owl’s shrewd pounce,
The crying creatures - all were there,
And men in bed with love and fear

​The slit moon only emphasized
How blood must flow and teeth must grip.
What does the calm light understand,
The light which draws the tide and the ship
And drags the owl upon its prey
And human creatures lip to lip?

Last night I watched how pleasure must
Leap from disaster with its will:
The fox’s fear, the watch-dog’s lust
Know that all matings mean a kill:
And human creatures kissed in trust
Feel the blood throb to death until

The seed is struck, the pleasure’s done,
The birds are thronging in the air;
The moon gives way to widespread sun.
Yes but the pain still crouches where
The young fox and the child are trapped
And cries of love and cries of fear
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Detail: Love Play, 2016.

THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST
Opening reception 2-4pm Saturday 4th of June 2016
Level 2, 39 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
Exhibition runs 2nd - 15th of June 2016

Open daily 11am until 6pm

Sculpture and charcoal works on paper by

​JOELLE MAYBERRY & TIFFANY TITSHALL



#themouthofthebeast #space39 #charcoaldrawing #artwork #majorcastudio #poetry #quotes #reference
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Facelift for one of few drawings left from previous exhibition Nature's Folly

4/28/2016

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Clearing has been darkened from evening light to deep night and is now for sale unframed.
More can be seen on the available works page.
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Clearing, 2013/16
Gesso, ink and charcoal on Arches paper
763 x 570mm unframed

​$1000 (unframed)
contact [email protected]
#drawing #charcoal #worksonpaper #artworks #majorcastudio
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The Mouth of the Beast, pre sold beast - catalogue available upon request.

4/21/2016

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THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST
Opens Saturday 4th June, 2-4pm 
Space39
Level 2, 39 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
Exhibition runs June 2nd - 15th
Open daily 11am until 6pm
JOELLE MAYBERRY & TIFFANY TITSHALL
Sculpture and charcoal works on paper
[email protected]

Familiar, 2016. Charcoal on primed paper. SOLD
Copy photography by Jayne Newgreen.

#themouthofthebeast #space39 #charcoaldrawing #artwork #majorcastudio
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“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!”  ― Pablo Picasso

3/25/2016

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Unfinished sketches and details for The Mouth of the Beast with Joelle Mayberry.
Opening 2pm, Saturday June 4th 2016 at Space 39, Level 2, 39 Little Collins Street, Melbourne.
Save the date!
#themouthofthebeast #space39 #charcoaldrawing #film #quotes #artwork #majorcastudio
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