Roseanne Bartley, Post Cards from the Ring Road, 2015
Mailbox Art Space
Foyer, 141 Flinders Lane Melbourne 3000
1-26 September Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, Sat 10am-5pm
Shadow Casting walks with the artist 3-5 September depart from the venue at 10:30am
This project stems from a Palaeo fantasy re-imagining the moment prior to the first making of Jewellery. On walks along the Metropolitan Ring Road (shared trail) the artist performed momentary associations between ornament (found object) and the body (shadow casting) and light. Printed images of shadow casting and fragments of light reflection and refraction are folded into 3D gemstone forms and installed within the Mailbox Art Space. The Mailboxes perform as a repository for safekeeping and as message bank - a site and space for reflecting on the role jewellery plays in human life. Instructions for shadow casting (My Shadow Wears) are available.
Artist Roseanne Bartley
Roseanne Bartley, Post Cards from the Ring Road, 2015
Roseanne Bartley, Post Cards from the Ring Road, 2015
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About the Artist
For artist jeweller Roseanne Bartley jewellery generates the content, form and methods of her work. Her approach is cross-disciplinary, oblique and speculative, she create things, procedures and experiences through social, performative and object based methods. Bartley has been awarded numerous grants including the Australia Council Barcelona Studio in 2004 and Australia Council New Work Grants in 2001, 2006 and 2012. Her work has been selected for national and international exhibitions, most recently Unexpected Pleasures, NGV and Design Museum, UK (2012-13); Melbourne Now, NGV (2013–14); and Suspended in Green, Vienna and Munich (2014). She is currently enrolled as a PhD candidate in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT._
