John Curtin Gallery update
From John Curtin Gallery | 27 Jul 2010
Admission is FREE
GROUP OF FIVE ON SHOW AT THE JOHN CURTIN GALLERY
17 September – 10 December 2010
Historical imagery, modes of record and distortions of truth and ritual are all explored in five powerful new exhibitions which open to the public at the John Curtin Gallery on Friday 17 September 2010.
In partnership with Curtin University’s School of Design and Art, the John Curtin Gallery is proud to present solo exhibitions by five of the most exciting up and coming female artists practicing in Perth today.
Thea Costantino, Tania Lee, Lee Mansbridge, Anna Nazzari and Angela Stewart work in various mediums including drawing, installation, sculpture, painting and kinetic sculpture.
Diseased Estate by Thea Costantino
Award-winning artist Thea Costantino, who is graduating with a PhD from Curtin, is well known to Perth audiences. Her art work has been shown widely in local and national exhibitions, and she is the founding member of the arts organisation Hold Your Horses with artists Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont who produced the dark comic musical Heart of Gold in 2009, written by Costantino.
Diseased Estate supports Costantino’s thesis which investigates the grotesque as a mode for the representation of history. Historical imagery – anonymous photographs, portraiture, medical documentation and photojournalism - are manipulated to alter the original context and question the notion that history can provide an objective access to the past.
Alternative Instructions for Every Day Life by Tanya Lee
Tanya Lee’s practice takes everyday tasks and transforms them into difficult and bizarre adventures. The humorous, often tragic, engagement between herself, the world and ordinary objects is explored through performance, drawings, photographic documentation and sculpture to construct a narrative.
Alternative Instructions for Everyday Life shows the way in which the rituals of everyday living and interaction with commonplace objects define our identity, space and the rules that exist between the two.
Lee, who grew up in the small wheat-belt town of Wubin, Western Australia, has recently completed her Master of Arts (Visual Arts).