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We're coming into award season again, and I am proud to again be a part of Campbelltown Arts Centre's annual Fisher's Ghost Art Award. My work 'Karen' will be on display from September 26.
Karen brings together the softness, familiarity and domestic associations of crochet with the fragility and permanence of fired ceramic, creating a tension between care and violence, intimacy and harm. The work draws attention to the language we use to diminish, categorise and police women. It speaks to a broader history of misogynistic language and words that are used to ridicule, shame and discredit women. It asks you to consider how these forms of denigration are repeated, inherited and normalised across generations. Through the transformation of a crocheted form into porcelain, the work considers how experiences of misogyny can become embedded within the structures of everyday life. Crochet carries associations of feminine labour, domesticity and intergenerational knowledge; here, that inherited language is translated into a material that is simultaneously delicate and hard, vulnerable and enduring. Karen explores intergenerational trauma as something that can be carried through language, behaviour, expectation and cultural memory. The work asks what happens when derogatory language becomes so familiar that it begins to feel ordinary, what traces of that language remain within us, even when its origins have been forgotten. |
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As an artist who works with clay, my practice is inherently tied up in the creation of ‘things.’ These things, once fired, have an enduring nature which transcends time and space; but they are also connected to social, political, and cultural ideologies present in the moment of their creation. Through my art I am exploring how objects in space convey their connection to these systems and ideologies.
Both clay and yarn are imperative to the themes I am conveying, they are pertinent to the modes of cultural production traditionally undertaken by women. I am interested in how these two materials interact and transform when combined. Yarn is a soft material, when knitted or crocheted it can make a myriad of forms; porcelain slip is a liquid, and when absorbed by yarn, it takes on the yarn's form. Through the leather hard stage, the clay allows this form to be moulded and manipulated. Once fired, it becomes hard, cold, and translucent. Through this materiality and process my work explores concepts of time, labour, value and transformation, and the role that gender plays in the construction of these ideologies. It is through the language of art and craft that I am exploring my experiences of time, value, place, space, and sex/gender – an investigation of woman 'as object' and woman as 'creator of objects'. |
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Exhibitions
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DECADE: INNER WEST SALON SHOW / 2023
Scratch Art Space NAS POSTGRADUATE SHOW / 2023
National Art School DUST TO TABLE: MACARTHUR CERAMICS GROUP/2022
Campbelltown Arts Centre FISHER'S GHOST ART AWARD / 2022
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FISHER'S GHOST ART AWARD / 2021
Finalist FISHER'S GHOST ART AWARD / 2020
Finalist FISHER'S GHOST ART AWARD / 2019
Finalist FISHER'S GHOST ART AWARD / 2018
Finalist |
