marian drew
devonian flesh: swallowing the cave
10 august - 8 september 2018
ARTIST TALK:
3pm SATURDAY 11 august
We are very excited to present a brand new body of work from one of Australia's leading art photographers, Marian Drew.
Marian Drew first exhibited with us in 2009, whilst participating in our Artist in Residence Programme. Since then she has shown with Turner Galleries twice, a solo exhibition in 2014 and in a group exhibition in 2013. We are very honoured to have been selected to debut her new series of photographs.
Devonian Flesh: Swallowing the Cave is an extraordinary body of new works inspired by her visit to Western Australia in 2009 when she took the time to travel and photograph some of the ancient rock forms near Kalbarri. This interest continued in 2017 with a visit to Arnhem Land and then to Chillagoe in 2018.
She noted that these rocks "are all over 350,000 million years old, when oceans were rich in sea life and animals were just crawling out of the ocean to inhabit the land. They are mostly of the very large scale of buildings or car sized." These photographs, through photographic processing, were then 'locked' onto another rock laid onto a domestic table, creating a mesmerising transmutation.
The domestic table, covered in a damask cloth, has been a staple backdrop for several series of works by Drew, creating a beautiful linear progression for her art practice.
She notes that, "Tables are traditional western sites for developing meaning as they are designed to congregate people for food and conversation. I am presenting the table and the rock as metaphoric propositions, a proposed dialogue between inside outside, micro and macro, human and other. In this work, I venture to propose that those attributes and mythologies that we assign to landscape can be found, through careful observation, in one piece of rock." Drew finishes with a profound Zen proverb; "if one finds a rock boring, it's not the rock's fault."
Marian Drew, born in 1960, Bundaberg, is one of Australia's most significant contemporary photographic artists. Her practice, spanning more than thirty years, is characterised by innovation and exploration of photo-media. She has held numerous solo shows across Australia, United States, France and Germany, and her work is held in many major public and private collections across Australia including the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia, Artbank and the J. Paul Getty Museum in the USA.
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