Work by three talented artists will open at Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Gorman House this July.
The Dead Sea: The Twilight Girls, Helen Hyatt-Johnston and Jane Polkinghorne, have been collaborating since 1990, working in various media including photography, sculpture/installation and video. Working alongside their individual art practices The Twilight Girls take on a humorous and sometimes dark interpretation of their own bodies and the world in which they exist. A fixation on the ridiculousness of the female experience has been a touchstone across many works that reveal pervasive elements of humour, revolt and disgust. Their current body of work is titled The Dead Sea.
Connecting You: Robyn Backen is an interdisciplinary artist whose work makes connections between art, science and philosophy. Her installations actively engage with the spaces in which they inhabit –whether gallery, landscape or building: the site provides the structural and associative framework for both formal and conceptual elements. Backen has a poetic approach which includes topics such as randomness and pattern, body and language, boarders and connections, distance and proximity. Her current work is titled Connecting You.
Placemaps: by Tracey Meziane Benson is a collage of identity – of where I have lived, spent holidays and explored. The images are like fragments of memory pieced back together in an attempt to map past experience visually. I am searching, zooming in and out, looking for traces of lost moments to create an understanding of time and place. What emerges from this investigation is not a nostalgic link to the past, it is a new interpretation that clearly maintains a distance between now and then, here and there.
This exhibition opening will take place at 6pm, Friday 9 July, with the exhibition closing 14 August 2010.
