Bringing together five emerging Queensland artists, Dice Topologies draws on tropes of gaming, and the interplay of chance and determination.
The works in Dice Topologies examine the interplay between chance and determination, with an emphasis on the tropes of myth and fantasy in which this interplay is often encased. Gaming is a massive and pervasive element of contemporary life, from throwaway mobile-phone games that provide short bursts of distraction, through to tabletop gaming epics, with campaigns lasting years and based on intricate mythologies. A defining feature of gaming is an interplay between luck and determined structures and narratives; from a role of a twenty-sided dice to its algorithmic equivalent determining the order of a fruit sequence in Suika Game.
Featuring artists, Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, Charlie Donaldson, Spencer Harvie, Michelle Le Plastrier, Tara Pattenden.
RAG, Cleveland
SUNDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2025 –
TUESDAY 25 MARCH 2025
Opening Event:
6pm, Friday 7 February 2025
Artist/s Talk:
10am, Sunday 23 March 2025
Spencer Harvie, PARTY MOUNTAIN, 2020, Graphite and ink in artist’s frame, 150 x 120 cm. Photograph by Charlie Hillhouse.