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This Way | The College of Fine Arts
This Way | The College of Fine Arts
Katherine Moline, Working drawing for Twist, tickle and swirl 2004, acrylic, latex, indaflex, plastic, wool, nylon, polyester, lurex, 165 x 360 x 60cm installed
This exhibition presents the work of three lecturers from the School of Design Studies at the
College of Fine Arts and signals the different kinds of practices and research conducted by these
colleagues.
Katherine Moline, Senior Lecturer and co-ordinator of Graphics/Media: Memory as a
concept seems like fiction when consumption, in whatever form, becomes expression, feeling and
fantasy. 'Twist, tickle and swirl' represents pleasure and pain while 'Untitled' explores
sublimated desire. These works continue a series that compares representation and reality
using manufactured materials: plangent absence felt via the designed relations between the work,
the shadows they cast and the viewer.
Liz Williamson, Lecturer and co-ordinator of Textiles: "Dark D'oyley" is part of a
series titled "Domestic Damask" depicting selected domestic textiles preserved in historical
collections or family use, re interpreted through contemporary Jacquard technologies. The small
embroidered and repaired doyley is in the collection of the Tumbarumba Women's Hut Museum in
southern NSW. Although the central repair dominates the small textile, it is not recorded in the
documentation for the textile, highlighting the invisibility of women's domestic work. The damask
weave structures used in the constructing draw on a recent enquiry into Irish Linen industry at its
height in the 19th century, producing linen for European and American homes.
Vaughan Rees, Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean - International: This body of drawings
is a visual conversation about perception, memory and geographical location. Our sensing body is a
crucible of memory-fed perceptions enveloping us as we move within our environment flooding and
merging our sensations of the now with experience of the past. These works are presented in
pairs where the content in one drawing is the more recently observed geographical location and its
twin morphs the recent with remembered places once experienced.
EXHIBITION DATES: 13 - 16 July 2004.
GALLERY HOURS: 10am - 5pm Tuesday to Friday
OPENING: Tuesday 13 June, 5 - 7pm
COFA Exhibition/Performance Spaces
EG01 & EG03, Ground Floor E Block
College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales
Corner Oxford Street & Greens Road, Paddington. 2021
Tel: 9385 0797
Story by Vaughan Rees