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Performance, props and paraphernalia

 

​Works from an installation appearing in Yimbaya Maranoa exhibitions at Mitchell on Maranoa and Injune Creek Galleries 2023 and 2024. The exhibition's essay by Emeritus Professor Pat Hoffie, and catalogue is on AELA Earth Arts' website https://eartharts.org.au/earth-arts-collective/yimbaya-maranoa/

Digital photographic images, mixed media drawing on fabric, performance costume, moulded plastic, sticks, wire, thread.

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These works resulted from a Yimbaya Maranoa Arts Collective's 2023 camping residency near Mount Moffatt and the headwaters of the Maranoa River.​

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Nocturnal Performance Portraits: Horse, cyclist, theodolite and  doppelgänger horse. Photo Loupe Imaging

IPerformance costume and Doppelgänger Horse

Recording nocturnal performance during Mount Moffatt residency

Droll Dream Diary

Found, constructed, and ready-made sculptures, textiles, paint, welded steel, dacron,sand. ​ This work converses with the seriousness of contemporary art about "the age of humans". Numbed by disaster narratives and moral imperatives, it asks if moments of levity can aid in processing our time's emotional buffeting. Through absurdity and speculation Curiouser glances ruefully towards the culture wars around climate, and the sheer impossibility of individually giving Capitalism the slip. Helen Hardess Installation
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