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Still life 
Solander Gallery, Wellington, 24 April - 2 June. Photogravure and stone lithograph (Suspended, 2012)
Works from this series are available from Solander Gallery, Wellington

Inspiration for this series of etchings stems from a collection of bird skeletons gathered over time. They have come to me as gifts, as objects found tucked amongst tidal flotsam or the detritus of the bush floor. Often bleached by the elements these small, fragile objects have seemingly outlasted their useful function, easily lending themselves to the subject and the object of my printmaking.
Human bones have what Krmpotich, and a colloquially termed research group the ‘bones collective’, call “emotive materiality and affective presence”.[1] 
Bones, whether human or animal can provoke “emotional political, visceral and intellectual responses from those who encounter them”.  Bones speak to us. They can be read as a sign representing something whose character can be taken from what is done with it, or as a symbol resembling a deeper meaning, its character derived from what is known by it.   Bones are often responded to viscerally, as things - as body, corpse or symbol, as subjects or objects, meanings or matter, depending upon their context.
[1] Krmpotich, Cara, Joost Fontein and John Harries. The Substance of Bones: The Emotive Materiality and Affective Presence of Human Remains. Journal of Material Culture, vol.15, no.4, December 2010, Sage Publications, p.371

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    • Displaced exhibition at Solander Gallery 2020
    • Inkmasters Print Exhibition
    • MAC National Print Award
    • Sydney Contemporary Art Fair 2018
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    • Burnie Print Prize 2019
  • Print Series
    • 2022 Isolation
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    • 2015/16 - Després d'Espanya
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    • 2012 - Still Life
    • 2011 - Towers
    • 2010-2012 - Various
    • 2007 - Decision Series
    • 2005 - Decision Necklace
  • Print Projects
    • Invitation to Printmaking Biennial of Douro 2018
    • Print Council Australia Commission
    • Printmaking - Beyond the Frame
    • Australian Print Triennial Prize
    • 47° South Rakiura: Five artists on Stewart Island
    • Exhibition at Fundació Iluro, Mataró, Catalonia
  • Sculpture
    • Public Sculpture >
      • Thought Pattern Diagrams
      • 2007 - Thought Pattern
      • 2006 - Decision Arc
    • Totems
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