Dangling Carrots

Michelle Hamer with Cat Wilson (projections)

Craft Victoria

www.michellehamer.com
Friday 29 April 2011 to Saturday 11 June 2011
Opening Thursday 28 April 2011 6-8pm
Exhibition previously on at Craft Victoria in Flinders Lane precinct, Victoria, Australia
Dangling Carrots is Michelle Hamer’s 10th solo show. Her work employs hand-stitched tapestry to explore signage and contemporary edicts. _*Dangling Carrots*_ explicitly questions the contemporary relevance of the ‘suburban dream’ in a post GFC climate. How do we reconcile edges and endless sprawl with environmental ideals of greater density?

Do our dreams have limits or is that just reality?

For the first time, Hamer will include digital projections (assembled by Cat Wilson), of the tapestry construction process, directly exposing the juxtaposition of manual and digital pixilation within her practice. The audience will be able to move through the projections, the pixels of light, creating new digital images on tapestried screens and the rear brick wall.

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Location

Craft Victoria
31 Flinders Lane
Flinders Lane Precinct
Victoria
Australia

Artists

Hand-stitched tapestry on perforated plastic 71x104cm, 2011 Photograph of LED signage at an intersection at the edge of suburbia. Text reads 2 Grants are better than 1.
2 Grants are better than 1
© All rights reserved Michelle Hamer 2011 Australia
Hand-stitched tapestry on perforated plastic 71x104cm, 2011 photographer: Marc Morel