Welcome to ek.1

COLLABORATIONS

Hicks and Williams began collaborating in 2008, when they met at Hornsby TAFE in the first year of a diploma of Fine Arts. Their individual projects have followed divergent paths, but they continue to return to collaboration as a way to explore their shared concerns about contemporary life, media and society.

Their collaborative works centre around the taken-for-granted materialism of everyday life. They reject the myth of the heroic, individualistic,artist-as-genius, an ideal commonly associated with transgressive masculinity. Their works are conversations, often featuring repetition of forms or cyclical rhythms,that open up and explore the ordinary wonder of the here and now.