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BRIDGET CURRIE
Scivias 16 May to 14 June The processes of Adelaide-based emerging artist Bridget Currie are tactile and her materials ordinary (old bath towels, carpet). Creating tensions between surface decoration and sculptural form, Bridget plays with notions of allegory and meaning, making objects tentative, mute and tender. Bridget Currie is a graduate from the SA School of Art and a founding member of the artist-run Downtown Art Space recently established in Adelaide. She is also an inaugural recipient of the Helpmann Academy's Mentorship Scheme, through which she will extend her writing practice. REVIEW In this exhibition, Bridget Currie set up an ambiguous relationship between two posited classes of thing. One was evidentiary: the video of a small group of people around a rug in a park, talking, laughing, relaxing. This was 'real' - that is, a filmic image of the (idealized) everyday. But as it transparently wasn't happening now its immediacy was poignantly passed. And its character as a moment of past time, past experience, was further underlined by the treatment of the film & its projection: colours were heightened (and also resembled deteriorating footage of the 70s era) and forms a little blurred; the picture was softly and irregularly rounded. not a rectangle - both things coding it as memory and as perhaps the idealization effected by memory. The second class of object stood in relation to this film or experience as memento: present, but bringing with them the memory of that experience: these were looped and folded lengths of bunting and, in another part of the gallery, a folded mat. Bunting possibly from that park; a mat used possibly by the group. Evidence, facts, souvenirs? And was their folded state a metaphor for the conscious archiving of memory? Potentially available, but possibly never to be recalled. The different presence of the exhibition's elements set up this questioning shuttle between the lively past of the filmic moment and the inert, deathly white present of mat and bunting. Ken Bolton EVENTS Gallery talk Thursday 29 May 2003 PUBLICATION Invitation/Catalogue: Poster style: A3 folded paper, full colour 2 sides - 2 images. Essay by Teri Hoskin. MEDIA What's On - Arts on Monday, The Advertiser, 19 May 2003 "Around Town" Weekly Times, The Messenger Press, 21 May 2003 Wendy Walker "Talking to the Animals" The Advertiser, Saturday 7 June 2003, page 86 James Strickland "Scivias" dB Magazine No 306, 11 June 2003, page 38 John Barbour "Bridget Currie+Louise Haselton: Scivias+Small Crowd", Broadsheet, Vol 32 No 3, p 33 |
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above: documentation: installation (video) details |
Documentation Photography by Lara Thompson |