sue starcken

touching history

26 october - 24 november 2012

Sue Starcken graduated from Edith Cowan University with a Bachelor of Arts in 2001.

She went on to obtain her Honours from there in 2003, a Post Graduate Diploma in 2004 and completed a Masters Degree in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Western Australia in 2008. During these years she wrote essays for publications, lectured, exhibited in seventeen group shows, won three print awards and continued honing her extraordinary printmaking skills.

Touching History is her first solo exhibition, and it is well worth the wait. Starcken’s unique etchings have a finely patterned surface, in which fragments of visual elements are layered to create a larger form. She is referencing history and memories and states, "Somewhat like the secret recesses of childhood, history demonstrably informs who and what we are... it is a manifestation of multiple elements, a sum of complex parts... Visual culture is an eminent repository of historical signification, and these works seek to map the fluid development of symbolic language."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

scissors, paper, rock, knife - gun I, II, III unique state etching + graphite on Hahnemuhle paper 2011 $2,200
the ghost of metropolis II unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 82 x 61cm 2012 $1,400	the ghost of metropolis III unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 82 x 61cm 2012 $1,400 sold
touching history I unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 82 x 61cm 2012 $1,400	touching history II unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 82 x 61cm 2012 $1,400 sold
shadows of versailles I unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 57 x 88cm 2012 $1,300
touching history III unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 82 x 61cm 2012 $1,400	trinomial I unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 82 x 61cm 2012 $1,200 sold
trinomial II unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 82 x 61cm 2012 $1,200 sold	trinomial III unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 82 x 61cm 2012 $1,200 sold
shadows of versailles II unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 57 x 88cm 2012 $1,300
sentinel I unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 80 x 57cm 2012 $1,300	sentinel II unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 80 x 57cm 2012 $1,300
primordium I unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 82 x 61cm 2012 $1,200 sold	primordium V unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 82 x 61cm 2012 $1,200
shadows of versailles III unique state etching on Hahnemuhle paper 57 x 88cm 2012 $1,300