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Sighting the PastThe University's Macleay Museum has provided both the inspiration and the venue for a new exhibition of jewellery by four Sydney-based contemporary artists.
On invitation, Diane Appleby, Keith Lo Bue, Susanna Strati and Alice Whish have made works specifically in response to the museum's rich collections.
All incorporate visual references from the museum as well as interpretations of nineteenth century philosophical and scientific ideas - and this is highlighted by showing the works in juxtaposition with specimens from the collections.
There's much diversity of style and approach.
Coloured sculptural pieces, made of metal, wax and found objects, themselves look like anatomical specimens which surrealistically cross boundaries of classification.
All segmented objects, they explore the processes of dissection which museums use to examine and store specimens.
Diane Appleby and Alice Whish took inspiration from the Museum's ethnographic collections.
Appleby's vibrant pieces made from aluminium, silver and silk are a contemporary response to the elaborate ceremonial combs made in Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Solomon Islands.
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10/3/2006 | Viewed 34,173 time(s)
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