Artlab Australia 2007

May 23, 2019

SALA Festival

(Formerly SALA Week)

Learning to Speak

3 August – 24 August 2007

Exhibition opened by: Andrew Durham, Director of Artlab Australia

Twenty six paintings convey a letter of the alphabet. The works, accompanied by a small publication, Learning to Speak (A Paper Woman Dream Series), offers text interwoven through 26 fixed words for each letter. Through a stream of consciousness, the text is less prescribed forming a subjective platform of conscious/unconscious perceptions, developed with several of the paragraphs inspiring short stories. Punctuation was omitted to free up a space where the spontaneity of thoughts and feelings could be recorded without concern for the technicality of writing. The process of bringing together a collection of words, formed a sense of meaning and difference to the work, enabling the reader to determine their own, open reference points.

Gallery

Learning To Speak Series 1, (L is for Lost - shown separately), 2007, oil on linen, 190 x 190 cm

Learning to Speak - Installation Text, Artlab Australia (Foyer)

A is for Alice Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

B is for Brain, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

B is for Brain, Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

C is for Cremation, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

D is for Different, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

D is for Different Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

E is for Empathy, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

E is for Empathy, Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

F is for Flight, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

F is for Flight, Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

G is for Girl, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

G is for Girl, Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

H is for Hunger, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

I is for Insect, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

J is for Jury, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

K is for Knife, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

L is for Lost, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

L is for Lost The Charmed Fawn, Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

M is for Monkey, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

N is for Nobody, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

O is for Original, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

P is for Predator, Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

Q is for Quiver, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

Q is for Quiver, Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

R is for Rose, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

R is for Rose, Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

S is for Stop, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

T is for Triangle, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

U is for Uppercut, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

U is for Uppercut, Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

V is for Violence, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

V is for Violence, Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

W is for Wig, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

X is for X Ray Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

Y is for Yellow, Series 1, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm

Z is for Zone, Series 2, 2007, oil on linen, 38 x 38 cm