Abstract
This body of artwork combines the powerfully sensorial capacities of photography and textiles to mobilise everyday materialities to examine the creation of mythic narratives. Inspired by the artist’s own experiences and the media representation of Grunge, Kurt Cobain and 1990s Seattle, the work is a contemporary reflection on a particular global sensation and ‘moment’ in late 20th Century culture and popular music. It utilises themes of nostalgia, aesthetics of the found and the faded, and the ambiguities of bodily presence and absence to provoke thinking around celebrity, death and memorialization. As a series of colour photograms of ‘found’ flannel/plaid shirts, the artworks appear simultaneously as a collection of ‘things’, as well as a series of grids and patterns; thereby operating at the productive interface of abstraction and representational art. The artist combines the powerfully sensorial capacities of photography and textiles to explore the poignancy of everyday materialities and the creation of mythic narratives. A selection of eight artworks from the series was exhibited in Obsessive Impulsion, a group exhibition at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, curated by David Broker.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Canberra |
Publisher | Canberra Contemporary Art Space |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |