domestica
dal 13/4/2000 al 27/4/2000
Segnalato da
13/4/2000
domestica
Institute for Modern Art / Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
A new art exhibition titled domestica showcases the
work of three Brisbane artists and opened at Space
43 Contemporary Art Spaces on Friday 14th of April
at 6pm. A combination of Photographs, Paintings
and Picturegrams comprises the exhibition giving a
fresh insight into Queensland domestic life.
domestica aims to readdress specific notions of
domesticity through various mediums and from
differing perspectives.
Artists Lise MacDermott, Annie Hogan and Jill Giles
are presenting their individual works using
domesticity as a central theme. Lise MacDermott is
a painter, profiling her latest series of icons of
Queensland architecture. Her 'handyman'
approach; enamel housepaints applied to masonite
board, provides a link to the building industry itself
and makes reference to the home crafts tradition of
the suburban homemaker.
Annie Hogan is a photographer whose images of
Queensland interior domestic spaces echo through
memory and the past. These empty interiors which
are simultaneously rich with surface detail and
decoration evoke simultaneously both absence and
presence. Jill Giles creates large picturegrams of
common domestic items including dishcloths,
sponges and doilies. Picturegrams are made in the
photographic printing stage by substituting the
object for the negative. Giles works celebrate
minutiae and how somewhat banal scraps of
domesticity can be transformed into meditations on
texture and pattern. domestica is a thoroughly
Queensland-centric exhibition. It takes ideas of the
home and re-interprets them from three individual
perspectives: the suburban Queenslander as home
and icon, the often hidden agenda of the interior and
the thorough exploration and delight found in the
banal, said Annie Hogan. As artists, we aim to twist
the idea of suburbia a little, and give it a fresh angle.
Our works can be appreciated by a variety of
audiences, perhaps all who participates in domestic
life, she said. domestica will be exhibiting at Space
43, 43 Vulture St (cnr Bond St) West End until the
27th April. Images available. It will be officially
opened by Renai Stoneley, newly appointed CEO of
Queensland Artworkers Alliance.
Institute for Modern Art
Brisbane, Q
AU Australia