Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro

Bringing together ideas of home, permanency, and the acquisition of material goods, their practice is characterised by the deconstruction and reinvention of prefabricated structures and the assembly of everyday objects into extraordinary sculptures and installations. The artists spend much of their time travelling. Their experience of a nomadic lifestyle directly informs their practice: packing, unpacking, collecting, sorting and discarding are central themes in their work. Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro will incorporate key works created by the artists during the past eight years as well as a new commission. The exhibition will span Healy and Cordeiro’s diverse range of artistic production and will include installation, sculpture and photography, drawing on both the MCA Collection and private loans. Healy and Cordeiro were awarded the Helen Lempriere Travelling Arts Scholarship in 2003, the Australia Council residency at Kunsterhaus Bethanien, Berlin, in 2005 and the Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship in 2006 and represented Australia in the Venice Biennale in 2009.