29 October to 15 November 2009

Sally Dooner

Cathexis 2009
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I am a gatherer, a collector, a hoarder and accumulator. My studio is filled with objects that have been somewhere and done something prior to capturing my attention. My objects of desire, photographs, books, bones, seed pods, insects, feathers, old bottles, tools, stones, glass, shells and rusted metals fill my space, my personal museum.

The lives of the collector and their collection may become intertwined forming a symbiotic relationship where the collector gives of their time, passion and energy and receives back a sense of identity, a way of ‘working out’ their life and a structure to their time and passing.

My body of work ‘Cathexis 2009’ is the direct result of my collecting. By the retracing of a journey taken in 1928, and the search for a link to my history, I travelled for twenty one days, through more than eighty towns or cities, for over four thousand kilometres through regions remote and unknown to myself. I collected, gathered, excavated, documented and purchased a significant amount of natural, artificial and cultural ‘souvenirs’ which I mostly posted home to be unpacked and assembled on my return, creating my cabinets of curiosities.

OPENING Saturday 31 October 2009 from 3pm
ALL WELCOME

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29 October to 15 November 2009

Gianna Fallavollita
Destinazione L’Australia
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My corpus of work is hinged on the framework of the period that spans between the 1950s to 1980 and examines and demonstrates via painting, the post-war Italian migrant. My paintings are poignantly influenced by my own splintered and spliced memories of inherited stories from my Italian parents’ arrival and early settlement years in Newcastle, NSW.  Tiny, faded black and white photographs frozen in time, that document my parents earlier years particularly those of my father, have become precious artefacts in historical time never to be repeated in this country.   These inherited stories that were deposited into my memory bank along with photographs is the vital artery that connects emotionally to the heart of my work.

Whether my paper and art practice has stepped onto the gangway and boarded the vessel as either art therapy or anthropology, or both, my personal viaggio has been extremely rewarding in examining, documenting and demonstrating via painting, my BFA Honours research.  Through my eyes as a second-generation Australian woman, I proudly present the life and experiences of the post-war Italian migrant - and their suitcase.

OPENING Saturday 31 October 2009 from 3pm
ALL WELCOME

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