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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
"Imagining the Everyday" Curated by Alasdair Foster, Director, Australian Centre for Photography Pingyao International Photography Festival (PIP10) in China 19 - 25 September 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Melbourne Art Fair 2010 Representing Dominik Mersch Gallery 4 - 8 August 2010 http://www.artfair.com.au/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Body is a Big Place" Collaborative project with artist Helen Pynor & Sound by Gail Priest Curated by Bec Dean, Associate Director, Performance Space A multi-artform installation work exploring experiences of organ transfer Performance Space CarriageWorks, Eveleigh Sydney, NSW 2011 http://performancespace.com.au/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECENT PAST EXHIBITIONS:
"The Outsider" Curated by Michael Brennan Including the artists: Aaron Martin, Anne Kucera, Brendan Lee, Caroline Durre, Fabrizio Biviano, Juan Ford, Michael Brennan, Nicholas Ives, Paul Batt, Peta Clancy, Tamsin Green & Yvette Coppersmith Trocadero Artspace Level 1, 119 Hopkins Street, Footscray, Vic 5 May - 22 May 2010 Standing on the beach with a gun in my hand / Staring at the sea, staring at the sand, w w w.trocaderoartspace.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Agenda" Including the artists Marion Borgelt, Peta Clancy, Elger Esser, David Fried, Tim Johnson, Helen Pynor, Stefan Thiel and Beat Zoderer Dominik Mersch Gallery 21 January - 20 February 2010 http://www.dominikmerschgallery.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GRANTS Peta, along with her collaborators Helen Pynor and Gail Priest, has been awarded an Interarts Project Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to research and develop the project 'The Body is a Big Place'. For this collaborative, art-medicine research & visual art project the artists will explore confounding questions raised by organ transplant surgery. Organ transplant recipients report a complex range of phenomenological & sometimes ambivalent responses to the experience of receiving organs. These responses highlight ways in which organ transplantation complicates notions of life & death, intersubjectivity & the organ as “gift” within a medical context. http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/amr/inter-arts/inter-arts_-_march_2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RESIDENCIES Peta has been awarded a three month residency at SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts at the University of Western Australia located in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology. Peta will undertake the residency at the end of 2010 with London/Sydney based artist Helen Pynor which will include learning microsurgery techniques for their collaborative project 'The Body is a Big Place'. This project will explore the phenomenology of organ transplantation. http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARTIST BOOK "PAPER THIN" PUBLISHED FOCUS ON SHOP FEATURE @ CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY (CCP) http://www.ccp.org.au/ Paper Thin $30 60 page full-colour artist book, images and text by Peta Clancy with an essay titled 'Skin Deep' by Dr Melissa Miles. “In 'Paper Thin' Peta Clancy considers the surface properties of paper – in this case, photographic paper – and the surface or skin of our bodies. In this artist’s book, an artwork in its own right, the art historian Geoffrey Batchen is quoted as suggesting that photography sits ‘between vision and touch’. I think of the immediacy of family photographs as they are thumbed through and viewed over and over; and of the work of the hands which direct the camera, then develop the prints, selecting and cropping, framing and displaying them for us to look at. These works consider the relationship between hand and eye, body and representation. Sensual and imperfect – a far cry from the perfection we have grown accustomed to through media imagery – these faces map the passage of time and experience, and are rendered timeless through the act of photography.” For Paper Thin “Peta Clancy considers the surface properties of paper – in this case, photographic paper – and the surface or skin of our bodies…In this artist’s book – an artwork in its own right – the art historian Geoffrey Batchen is quoted as suggesting that photography sits ‘between vision and touch’. I think of the immediacy of family photographs, as they are thumbed through and viewed over and over; and of the work of the hands which direct the camera, then develop the prints, selecting and cropping, framing and displaying them for us to look at…These works consider the relationship between hand and eye, body and representation. Sensual and imperfect – a far cry from the perfection we have grown accustomed to through media imagery – these faces map the passage of time and experience, and are rendered timeless through the act of photography.” Rachel Kent, Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art – for the opening of Peta Clancy’s exhibition Paper Thin at Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, 3 December 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCTORATE COMPLETION During 2009 Peta completed her PhD in Fine Art in the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University. Her project titled 'Amorphous Bodies - the space between' explored the theme of the fragile and mutable human body. Informed by artist residencies in genetics laboratories, and archival research on the artist Helen Chadwick, four series of photographic artworks presented unique visual representations of the body in relation to medical and feminist discourses. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
