1994
Spiral Arm, Gallery, Kingston, ACT Australia
The group Its two to one consisted of Davida Wiley, Patricia Prociv and myself had worked together making exhibitions for several years. In 1994 we developed a collaborative exhibition for the Spiral Arm in Kingston.
The academic and arts writer Marion Benjamin wrote in the exhibition catalogue that ‘ The figure of woman her is not reduced to her biological sameness. Rather, hers is a body which is constitutes and given meaning socially and historically. This is an effect of a reading against the grain which produces the body as text and not just another body of texts. After all reading against the grain does produce a sort of rough texture, that tactile and sensuous investmetn which works against the slippery surfaces of those grand narratives of sainthood, those seamless histories which gloss the exclusion of women and those superfluous shimmerings that are the romantic teleologies constructed in women’s magazines.