Breath Spectrum is a solo exhibition by Nick Austin currently on at Coastal Signs Gallery. 

Through an assemblage of found objects, sculpture, and archive, Austin invites the viewer into a space by which they are confronted with his material contemplation of ageing, life, legacy, and the afterlife. Bringing together intersections of labour, the domestic, artistic, recreational, and industrial, the line between art and archive is blurred. 

With transistor radios, chewing gum, ovens, eggs, tennis rackets and balls, and crosswords each present in the space, Austin summons curiosity and inquiry into these objects that may first appear random, but really mask the seriousness of his exploration. In this space, we are asked to question where our things go when we’re finished with them, where we go when we’re finished, and how we will be remembered.  

Sofia had a kōrero with Nick Austin about Breath Spectrum and his overall practice.