MaudeNormoyle, "untitled (Shroud)" 2021 embroidered wool on cotton mesh detail of work in progress. Dimensions variable approx. 300x240 cm.
EXHIBITION OPENS: Wednesday 20 July from 12 pm at ANCA Gallery.
OFFICIAL OPENING EVENT: Saturday, 23 July from 2pm
Free to attend, no bookings required.
Portraits, death masks, masks of hope & ritual, memorials, & shrouds – forms relating to the living, the dying & the dead, the influential & the remembered; the casts of Pompeii & the cast-offs of contemporary daily life are essential references, becoming an homage to or representations of mortality, presence, influence & resonance, dissolution & re-constitution, being & vitality, belonging & culture.
The mask is a device of ritual used in most documented cultures. Modern technology has produced a mask that meets the requirements of radiation therapy, which targets cancerous cells to destroy their DNA. This mask helps to register the targeted radiation treatment from one therapy session to the next &, as an object dissociated from its function, becomes an affecting portrait of the hopes, fears, pain & isolation – physical & existential – endured by those struggling to find a path to survival.
While at times spoken with distant or discordant voices, the project is a story of interaction & one-ness with its collection of experiences and accumulation of objects & materials – made, used, discarded, re-imagined. It proposes to invoke a sense of, not only the push-&-pull of our daily lives amidst- & post-Covid, but also to offer something of the imagery, physical materiality, & perhaps invoke a catalyst of some sort for moving into & through a more symbiotic present & a community-based dynamic of remembrance & celebration
Richard Maude
Richard studied at the National Art School, Alexander Mackie College, City Art Institute & Sydney College of the Arts. He has established several artist-run, studio residences & galleries, has worked as a curator & public gallery director, & has held several solo shows, with work exhibited in numerous curated group & award exhibitions.
Gabrielle Bates
The art practice of Gabrielle Bates has evolved over 30 years into an immersive investigation of how we occupy, understand and enchant place. In 2007 Gabrielle undertook a year long residency in Kuala Lumpur, which led to subsequent residencies in Penang, Manila and Australia. These experiences introduced her to community-inclusive approaches to cultural production, as well as prompting her post graduate research into Witchcraft, ritual and creative site activation.
Jane Bodnaruk
Jane is interested in the everyday textiles that surround us – our clothes and our household linens. These everyday textiles are invested with tacit memories, and we can be moved by emotions when we handle them. Jane explores the interweaving between lives and the textiles surrounding them: what complicated stories are incorporated into the threads of warp and weft of household linens, or in the stitches and seams of garments.