Encounter with Beuys
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Christine Willcocks 2010 Australia
glass, steel, found objects, etching on felt
130 x 60 x 40cm
CHRISTINE WILLCOCKS
Musee Imaginaire
Flinders Lane Gallery
Tuesday 04 May 2010 to Saturday 22 May 2010
Opening Thursday 06 May 2010 5.30 - 7.30pm
For Musee Imaginaire Willcocks combines a range of printmaking, installation and photographic processes to explore notions of museology and the conceptual spaces such environments evoke in the viewer.
Employing a range of display devices such as vitrines, domes and antique frames to house contemporary worksWillcocks highlights the passage of museological traditions and our relationships to preservation. The artist states, ‘Over the past years my work has focused on the demise of the natural world and its renewal, often as objects or artifacts within an institutional setting. My prints explore the rituals of collecting and how this act plays a key role in the preservation of our memories.’
Willcocks’ work is represented in a range of public collections including Artbank; Gladstone Regional Art Gallery; Gold Coast City Art Gallery; Grafton Regional Art Gallery; Lismore Regional Art Gallery; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery and the Print Council of Australia. She has been the winner of the The Fremantle Print Award (2007) and The Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (2000) as well as being a finalist in The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize (2008) and The Conrad Jupiters Art Prize (2006).
