2021

SPACE YZ curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham for the Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, Sydney, Australia

https://www.spaceyz.com.au/

Three of my works were selected by the curator for this group exhibition. The two small glass works are from a work I made in second year. It originally consisted of I think sixteen panels. At least half were broken during the installation of the work for assessment. The works responded to the ruin of a school destroyed by fire near where I lived at that time. These glass works overlay the residue of burnt architectural fragments with the emotional landscape of desolation and grief.

The dress work was made a year or so after I had left art school in response to another fire and to a reimagining of a flood, and marks the start of my ongoing interest in the abject.

School Fire, 1985, 1985, Glass, metal and found objects, Two pieces, 32 x 39 cm each
My Grandad always said, ‘It’s easier to clean up after a fire than a flood’, circa 1988, Mural photograph and found object, 72 x 100 cm

My work is on the far left of the Image My Grandad always said, ‘It’s easier to clean up after a fire than a flood’, circa 1988 Mural photograph and found object, 72 x 100 cm Photo Credit Lucy Parakhina.

My work is on the far left of the Image My Grandad always said, ‘It’s easier to clean up after a fire than a flood’, circa 1988 Mural photograph and found object, 72 x 100 cm

Photo Credit Lucy Parakhina.

Space YZ Intervention Wall 240 x 240cm

Fiona Davies, Greg Ferris and Davida Wiley’s intervention wall features a collaborative video work that functions as a 'call and response', primarily to Davies work, through movement, colour and duration. The intervention provided the artists with the opportunity to work alongside each other once again, after 35 years.

Fiona Davies, Once upon a time long ago and far away: Being moved from one place to another, 2019, video, 2'20"

Vimeo·2:20

Yearbook+screenshot+1986.jpg

The yearbook - https://www.spaceyz.com.au/

Self described on the exhibition website as “This website is a dynamic extension of Space YZ, expanding upon the narratives in the exhibition and highlighting the influence this Fine Arts Faculty held. In the lead up to and over the course of the exhibition, this site will feature commissioned texts and reflections from students, artists, academics and teachers from the school, as well as artist profiles. It will provide access to the abundance of engaging archival material, graduation catalogues, images and video content, as well as the unique Foundation Studies projects undertaken by first year students.”

The image on the left is my entry in the graduation catalogue or yearbook for 1986. I did what was called a double major in glass and sculpture. My graduating work for glass was a sound work while the sculpture component was a more traditional mural photograph, metal and plaster installation that was based on the expression of time in a photograph.


School Fire, 1985, Glass, metal and found objects, One of Two pieces, 32 x 39 cm each

School Fire, 1985, Glass, metal and found objects, One of Two pieces, 32 x 39 cm each

School Fire, 1985, Glass, metal and found objects, Two of Two pieces, 32 x 39 cm each

School Fire, 1985, Glass, metal and found objects, Two of Two pieces, 32 x 39 cm each

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