Travis John Ficarra at Glasshouse Gallery, Melbourne June 07 — July 13, 2023
Nutbrown, bister, puce, sorrel, toast, cocoa, chestnut, buff, ecru, henna, snuff, carob, dark honey made of goldenrod pollen Embouchure coiled
A lagoon of sour water in a deep roasting pan, kissed by a milky deliquescence. Sharp oysters scraping at the swell. Cellophane boulderstones create a fog ahead.
Everything a little diaphanous, vitreous, unclouded, lacteal muck sweat.
Through elegant columns of nacreous, sugarglass colonnades gleam long skeins of garden, stuffed rich with gossamer plies of leafage in floodlit shadow play. Along a sylvan aisle you twig a chocolate goblin.
Its barnet is a tight and glossy helmet that bleeds into a specular face, or perhaps the brilliant smooth egg is hairless. Two cochineal eyeholes perch above a craggy snap of brittle, mouth like a mendiant, agape and toothy. It is unicolour, creamy nutbrown and bister, and blistered with droplets. throbbing in does she wear a mask?
— Mask? Mask? Oh, I see, you mean her slap — It is customary — a sign of refinement.
— Ariane Jaccarini
Chocolate Goblin Travis John Ficarra
Glasshouse Gallery, Melbourne June 07 — July 13, 2023
Text: Ariane Jaccarini
Photography: Travis John Ficarra
Travis John is an artist and composer based in Melbourne, Australia working in painting, sound and sculpture. He holds a BFA Honours from RMIT and a Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of Art.
Recently Travis has exhibited at Blindside, BUS projects, Fort Delta and the Arts Centre. He has also performed at events and venues such as SuccessArts Perth, the MCA Artbar, the International Noise Conference, Gertrude Contemporary and the Art Centre Melbourne.
Travis is the recipient of the Australia Council New Work Grant, the NGV Victoria Association Award and the Nava Australian Artists’ Grant.