OBJECTS FOR PRAYER
2019
Pendant, 2019, stoneware with glazes and underglaze pencil, cotton and silk thread, red onion skin dye. Installed at Front/Space. Photo: Patricia Bordallo Dibildox.
During the second year of my MFA in 2019, I worked with both ceramics and textiles to explore ideas around craft, making and prayer. While the focus of this body of work ultimately became weaving and plant-dyeing, these ceramic and woven objects were exhibited in several iterations throughout 2019 under the project title New prayers for old feelings.
Exhibitions included Crafty Queers (with Nicholas Smith), Kingston Arts Centre, Moorabbin VIC; New prayers for old feelings, VCA Student Gallery, Southbank VIC; and New prayers for old feelings, Front/Space, Kansas City (Missouri USA).
NEW PRAYERS FOR OLD FEELINGS
June 2019
Front/Space, Kansas City (Missouri USA)
New prayers for old feelings, Front/Space. Photo: Patricia Bordallo Dibildox.
A solo exhibition at Front/Space in Kansas City, Missouri (USA), in June 2019. This exhibition also included the site-specific installation A record of time and attention.
Photographs: Patricia Bordallo Dibildox.
CRAFTY QUEERS (with Nicholas Smith)
January 2019
Kingston Arts Centre, Moorabbin
Crafty Queers exhibition view, 2019, Kingston Arts Centre. Photo: Lauren Dunn.
Anna Dunnill and Nicholas Smith spent eight weeks in residency at Kingston developing separate (but conceptually related) bodies of work. Both artists used textiles and ceramics to explore religion and prayer through the lens of the queer body.
Crafty Queers catalogue text by Chloé Hazelwood: ‘This is what catharsis looks like.’
