The Virus and the Curve 2020
Assemblage: Wood, acrylic, rubber, metal. Latrobe College of Art and Design, Collingwood. (LCAD)
Forest Shrine 2020. Turramurra Music Camp, Otways
Created just after the destruction of the Black Summer fires, this was a site for participants to express love and grief for the forests and animals through ritual, procession, chanting and music.
Shrine to No-one 2020 Assemblage: fabric, clay, plaster, potato, mulch, mirror. LCAD
Purple Thread, Clay Thread 2019 Assemblage LCAD
An exploration of ancestry, inheritance and a sense of belonging in culture and place
Other Assemblage projects 2018-2020 LCAD
Working in mixed media, often with items I found on the street or in the tip shop, I aim to give new life and meaning to what is salvaged.
The Cupboard Conspiracy 1985
Solo Exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre Artspace.
Working with salvaged cupboards redesigned and assembled as a kind of miniature town square, I created a grouping of themed spatial presences each with an outer persona and an interior state or psychology revealed by opening the doors.
Although the themes included love, beauty, death, boredom, anger and narcissism, I was able to adapt each cupboard as a vehicle of storytelling for visiting children’s groups, improvising tales and fables that culminated in opening to reveal the outcome of the narrative.
Bronwyn Calcutt 