Breed Like Flies from the Beastess series
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Deborah Kelly 2010 Australia
Handmade paper collage on Italian cotton paper68.5 x 50 cm
Tender Cuts - Deborah Kelly
Gallery Barry Keldoulis
Wednesday 15 September 2010 to Saturday 09 October 2010
Opening Wednesday 15 September 2010 6-8pm
Kelly's imagery mates & mutates ideas and pictorial elements salvaged (or savaged) from our collective visual vocabulary, unsettling both the biological and cultural imaginings of the Feminine. Exuberant iconoclasm arrests the spectator. These handmade collages in the Dada tradition confront new social realities.
The safety of the everyday is chopped-up and we are forced to rethink our positions through her surgical incisions on the norm.
Tender Cuts has been assisted by The Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence Program and the Visiting Fellow program at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney.
