Exhibition floor talk | Costume Elegies
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Publication Title
Exhibition floor talk | Costume Elegies
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
School
School of Arts and Humanities; ECU Galleries
Description
Exhibition Statement | Jody Quackenbush’s Costume Elegies is an exhibition of photographic prints and textile remnants. The exhibition is a memorial to a series of works created over the last seven years; works the artist describes as ‘visual elegies’ to deceased, famed, and, in some cases, largely forgotten women. Among them are artists, colonial botanists, and asylum patients.
The series had its origins in an artwork that repurposed a chair that had belonged to the artist’s deceased grandmother, reflecting the organic way Jody works. Constantly collecting and repurposing, dismantling and reassembling. Thus, much of her work is ephemeral, where the only physical evidence of a photoshoot that remains is the photograph itself, and the echoes and traces of previous, now deceased, artwork can be found in more recent assemblages.
Artist Bio | Jody Quackenbush is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Perth. She completed studies in painting and sculpture at the Western Australian School of Art, Design and Media in 1999 and was selected for PICA’s annual Hatched exhibition in 2000. Jody completed a Bachelor of Visual Art from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in 2007 and has undertaken studies at Massey University (NZ) in Textile Design.
Jody has twice been selected for the Joondalup Invitation Art Prize, and won the Highly Commended award at the inaugural York Botanic Art Prize in 2020.
More recently, Jody has had photography and textile works acquired by the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, held at the University of Western Australia.
Additional Information
Exhibition dates: 14 April - 12 May 2022 | ACDC Artist Floor Talk: 27 April 2022 12.30 - 1.30pm