Exhibitions / Ghost
14.11.2009 to 28.11.2009
Trocadero Art Space, Footscray.
Have you ever lost someone close to you, perhaps a little while ago now?
In Ghost I explore the long lasting effects of losing someone close, suddenly, no matter how or by whose hand.
In this small, intimate body of work I use 'women's' materials of watercolour, coloured pencil and paper, thread and embroidery combined with the symbolic imagery of death - portraits, memorials, mementos, crash sites, graves, churches, skulls and flowers, to create small memorials for lost love ones.
I am interested in how the passing of time affects grief, longing and memory.
How do we deal with the impossibility of a life continuing?
Ghost is about the things that can haunt us, the things that can chase us for the rest of our days.
What do we do with the imaginings of how people die, our dreams, our silent conversations with the dead?
Who speaks for the dead?
Ghost tries to reconcile the irreconcilable. We can't bring them back.
Photographs: Screaming Pixel
Ghost, Install shot 2009
Ghost-Installation view 2009
Ghost-Installation view 2009
Ghost, Install view 2009
Ghost, Install view 2009
Flower Skull 2009
Thread (embroidery) on linen
Image 140 x 140 mm Outside edge 460 x 445 mm
The Angel That Looks After the Children 2009
Watercolour on paper
49 x 33 cm
Fringed Skull 2009
Watercolour and metallic thread on paper
38 x 28 cm
Casper 2009
Watercolour on paper
44 x 39 cm
Looking For Klaas 2009
Coloured pencil on paper
38 x 28 cm
Klaas All Rubbed Out 2009
Coloured pencil on paper
38 x 28 cm
Glow in the Dark Cross 2009
WWatercolour, pencil, coloured pencil, acrylic, tempura and glow crystals on paper
28 x 38 cm
The Lonely Outcrop 2009
Watercolour and coloured pencil on paper
28 x 38 cm
The Lonely Outcrop-detail 2009
Watercolour and coloured pencil on paper
28 x 38 cm
Ghost 2009
Watercolour and metallic thread and dried flower on paper
28 x 38 cm
For John 2009
Watercolour, found object (dried flower) and metallic thread on paper
27 x 37 cm
The Tree Was Bandaged for Years and Years (for Wolfgang) 2009
Watercolour on paper
38 x 28 cm
It Was So Good to See You Again (after Lee) 2009
Pencil and Inkjet print on paper
29 x 21 cm
She Had Moonbeams in Her Eyes 2009
Watercolour and metallic thread (crochet) on paper
38 x 28 cm
Veiled Skull 2009
Watercolour and metallic thread and dried flower on paper
38 x 28 cm
Deathtrap (for Heather) -glow detail 2009
Model car (1/43 scale), glow in the dark acrylic, polyethylene and satin thread
11 x 4.5 x 3 cm
Love and Death in the HR 2009
Found object (model car), glow in the dark thread, cotton
12 x 9 x 4 cm
Pink Skull 2009
Watercolour on paper
38 x 28 cm
Blue Skull 2009
Watercolour and metallic thread and dried flower on paper
38 x 28 cm
School Photo 2009
Watercolour on paper
38 x 32 cm
Kelly With Kitten 2009
Watercolour on paper
38 x 28 cm
Mug Shot 2009
Watercolour, thread (embroidery), vilene on paper
38 x 28 cm
Three Roses 2009
Watercolour on paper
57 x 38 cm