2021 Grace Cossington Smith Art Award, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery
5- 26 February 2022
2021 Grace Cossington Smith Art Award, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
Digital print on silk georgette, timber stretcher, oak frame, indigo-dyed silk georgette, reclaimed floor boards, vintage beads, approx. 84 x 142 x 7 cm.
This work represents place, time and human presence, and the connections between all three. The photograph is the view from a site that, for many reasons, holds an almost mythical sacredness for our family. The old floor boards speak to the absent shack that once stood there. The silk and beads directly reference the traces of human presence that lived, breathed and died within its walls, particularly the robust but exotic feminine power that still lingers at this site, and in our memories.
