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“Six decades into feminism and women are still talking about equal pay, childcare and glass ceilings…”
“The viewer – accustomed to limited and controlled visual critique from looking at art on a smartphone screen – projects context, scale, presence and materiality onto the work, as well as an affect of quality via the amount of likes and followers an account has.”
“The feelings inside me would seep out and imbue the outer scape with strange and frightening characteristics. As an artist, this has translated into a drive to explore how and what different environments can make us feel.”
These works ask “when does something make sense?” – as we are never in total possession of ourself nor in total ignorance…
“Using a science fiction lens, I explore possible futuristic landscapes and creatures inhabiting contaminated coastal ecosystems.New forms of hybrid flora and fauna emerge; mutated corals that are half scleractinian, half plastic, dystopian creatures that remind us of our indifference now and for hundreds of years into the future…”
King was a refugee of Nazi Europe who found love and a home in the foreign landscape of Australia, and until her death aged 100 in 2016 was a subject, like all Australians, of an often blind and indifferent Crown.
‘I have tried to leave them all at a stage that reflects some kind of completion but I also feel as if they have no end.’
This is an embroidery that depicts a garish face in a yellow and black motley pattern.
My principal methodology is to reconfigure whatever objects and materials are at hand.