To Market - Lot19 Castlemaine, 23 Sept - 8 Oct 2017
To Market was a mixed media exhibition featuring sculpture, painting, moving image and textiles. The exhibition ran over three weekends from Saturday 23rd September until Sunday 8th October 2017 at Lot19 in Castlemaine.
To Market comprised work created during an artist residency in July 2017 at the Oasis Hub Studios in Rainbow, Victoria, along with inspired new works upon returning home. Diverting from familiar ephemeral grass sculpture and interactive installations, this body of work continued to explore environmental themes using fabric and paint.
Bold and expressive paintings investigate cowhides, while the center sculptural piece found a new use for clothing, echoed by Second skins, cloth hides that draped from the wall and floor of the gallery. Bargain hunters went home happy after shopping cost price for mock meat trays.
Paintings
Upside-down Miss Jane
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A stitch in time
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Tracks
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Gravy Train
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More than just a butchers shop
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Vision
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Tic Tac Toe
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Ingrained
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Landprints
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Shadow of doubt
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Choice Cuts
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Australian Identity
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Your Mooove
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Choice Cuts
Artist Statement September 2017
Through my work I try to make links between human behaviour and the environment.
As a grazing nation, the Australian landscape has been extensively manipulated and transformed, dramatically changing the terrain and the way it is inhabited. As an introduced and domesticated species, cattle subsist in vast quantities with beef and dairy industries playing an integral role in the Australian economy.
Sewing second hand items together into patterned meat sections I’m toying with the idea that ‘you are what you eat’. I’ve used clothing to relate human consumption with animal and land consumption. Each item has personal, historical and emotional attributes chosen for its feminine and maternal coloring and textures. These human remnants remake the hide as a commentary on animal ‘husbandry’ and the subjection of the Australian landscape to the cattle industry.
The iconic shape of cow hides bear resemblance to territories or nations; divided by state lines or paddocks in the way animals are segmented into meat cuts. Black and white images question grey areas in industry and personal choice. The artist walks to market, vulnerable and exposed, the cow appears hesitant, reluctant and wary. The inevitability of human consumption looms.
Through my work I try to make links between human behaviour and the environment.
As a grazing nation, the Australian landscape has been extensively manipulated and transformed, dramatically changing the terrain and the way it is inhabited. As an introduced and domesticated species, cattle subsist in vast quantities with beef and dairy industries playing an integral role in the Australian economy.
Sewing second hand items together into patterned meat sections I’m toying with the idea that ‘you are what you eat’. I’ve used clothing to relate human consumption with animal and land consumption. Each item has personal, historical and emotional attributes chosen for its feminine and maternal coloring and textures. These human remnants remake the hide as a commentary on animal ‘husbandry’ and the subjection of the Australian landscape to the cattle industry.
The iconic shape of cow hides bear resemblance to territories or nations; divided by state lines or paddocks in the way animals are segmented into meat cuts. Black and white images question grey areas in industry and personal choice. The artist walks to market, vulnerable and exposed, the cow appears hesitant, reluctant and wary. The inevitability of human consumption looms.
