Laura Deakin: Layered traces, folded spaces
Exhibition
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01 Feb 2011
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26 Feb 2011
Published: 27.01.2011
Gallery Funaki
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Brooch: Moho Nobilus, 1934, 2010
Polyester resin, thread, plexi glass, steel, pigment
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Gallery Funaki is proud to present the first solo exhibition of Laura Deakin.
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Pour part one and add a dash of pigment. Part two comes next - the hardening catalyst - measured precisely into the thick, coloured mixture. Mix thoroughly, press, scratch and mould. It’s a race against the clock; a few minutes and the resin will become solid as its molecules are reorganised. Malleability will turn to rigidity. A chemical bond is forming that cannot be broken… it’s now or never.
These moments of transition are what Laura Deakin’s work deals with: changes of state, changes of form, changes in the very essence of material. But look closer and the transitions go beyond the material to address other, more poetic changes of state. Natural becomes unnatural. The personal becomes anonymous, and vice versa. Presence translates to absence and the extinct is suddenly corporeal. Real turns to fake, and fake becomes precious.
These moments of transition are what Laura Deakin’s work deals with: changes of state, changes of form, changes in the very essence of material. But look closer and the transitions go beyond the material to address other, more poetic changes of state. Natural becomes unnatural. The personal becomes anonymous, and vice versa. Presence translates to absence and the extinct is suddenly corporeal. Real turns to fake, and fake becomes precious.
Gallery Funaki
- Mail:
- galleryfunaki
iinet.net.au
- Phone:
- 613 9662 9446
- 613 9662 9446
- Management:
- Katie Scott
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