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Red Earth Dresses Installation
Red Earth Dresses Installation
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Melbourne, VictoriaStart date
2018-11-22End date
2018-11-23Language
engResearch statement
Red Earth Dresses: an exhibition around Touch, Place and Identity Knitting, twisting and knot-making with copper wire and thread, are some of the ways I and my co-creators have created this exhibition piece titled Red Earth Dresses. I create my art whilst entangled in a place I have co-constructed through experiences such as: being here, there, imagining, memory, creating, observing, listening, touching and feeling. In the process of creating Red Earth Dresses, I have handled materials, felt strains in my arms and hands from knitting six life size dresses and a range of miniature versions and twisted, knotted and woven copper wire into them. These images have emerged from a process of ‘rogue knitting’ where no pattern is used. I have responded to the emerging form, stretching the weave out to see and feel what is emerging. I share this experience and work around touch, place and identity as this work has come to represent my own and other women’s experiences and relationships with the earth/land of Australia. I have come to identify with these women as a regional Australian citizen for twenty years. It is my experience and in-sight that women of the past and of this land have adopted some of the colonial Victorian dress sensibility and aesthetics but also blended and connected with the earth through their place experiences. Their dresses were worn and torn and mended in parts. Traces of touch through wear, tear and mending are material memories of place and bodily engagements on/with this land/place.Publication classification
JO4 Original Creative Works – OtherExtent
2 colour photographs of the installationEvent
es and Public Spaces. Conference (2018 : Melbourne, Victoria)Publisher
Shelley HanniganPlace of publication
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