“Recently I began a Master of Art by Research at Sydney College of the Arts and have been involved more
with installation art and the performative aspects of photography. While imaging water sustainability has been the main focus of my art interventions I have also engaged in other questions of equity and access such as ageism and ablism in public pools in Sydney. In my last group show at Articulate Project Space in Sydney I collected correspondence between a swimmer with disabilities complaining about discrimination and the response from pool management. Interspersed with this was semi-abstract photographic
meditations on the patterns of light on pool water and a protest banner demanding equal access. This banner was taken along to public demonstrations and people were asked to pose in front of it if they agreed with the anti-ablism message and then these photos were used in the installation as well. Some of the feedback I had was that it was part John Baldessari and part 1920’s avant-garde formalism. Some thought it was funny while others felt indignant and angry so I don’t know if this means it was really bad art or not.”
Issue 14 - March 2016
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