Aaron Martin
Car Jacking
25.11.15 – 05.12.15

Car Jacking is a sculptural installation that responds, and interacts, with the existing architecture at Five Walls. Installed adjacently at each end of the gallery are two large scale works: a Brancusi-like column constructed from ten car jacks – spanning a 3.1mtr void to link floor and ceiling – and a precariously balanced replica roofing truss, fashioned from lightweight plywood. The works occupy a slippery space between form and functionality: applying the methods inherent to engineering and architecture, while at the same time, the formal language of abstract painting and sculpture.

Aaron Martin has been exhibiting since 1998, he has held numerous solo and group exhibitions across Australia. He has twice been a finalist in the John Leslie Art Prize and a finalist in the Paul Guest Art Prize (2014) & Churchie Art prize (2011). He was awarded art residencies at: St Vincents Hospital (2010), Ballilla House, Brighton (2011), Poh Chang University, Bangkok(2013 & 2015) and Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand (2013).

As an educator, curator and gallerist Aaron has been and is actively involved in the arts, lecturing in painting and drawing at Melbourne School of Art (2001-06) and Swinburne University (2005-12). He worked as writer, interviewer and creative advisor for ArtInfo.com.au. He has held a seat on the board of Trocadero Art Space (2008-10) and Vice-President (2010-15). In 2012 he founded Five Walls Projects where he is the current Director. He is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts (by research) at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.