minimus

SOLO EXHIBITION
OPENING EVENT WEBB GALLERY, SOUTHBANK, Fri June 16, 6 – 8pm

Continues until  June 30, 2017 open 10 – 4pm Tues – Sat

Photos by Jonathan Tse

There are many animals, who, though far from being large, are yet capable of raising ideas of the sublime,
because they are considered as objects of terror.
As serpents and poisonous animals of almost all kinds.
And to things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater – Edmond Burke 1757

Exhibition Rationale:
My current art practise and research is primarily focussed on exploring concepts surrounding ‘Zoonoses’.
The minimus exhibition is my first foray into sculptural/installation work and has a specific focus on the role of tiny zoonotic hosts such as mosquitos and fleas, both capable of causing mass destruction.

The work created for minimus is my response to Edmund Burke’s quote (above), exploring extemities in size and scale. Historically plague infected fleas have been responsible for the loss of an estimated 75 million lives.  During World War 11 plague fleas were used as weapons of war. Worldwide, the World Health Organization reports there are still between 1,000 – 3,000 cases of plague each year.  The mosquito is regarded as the most deadly animal in the world.  According to the World Health Organization, mosquito bites result in the deaths of more than 1 million people every year.

Watermarks

GROUP EXHIBITION

Watermarks – Anastasia Tyurina, Nicola Hooper, Svetlana Trefilova, Helen Wyatt

Specimens

GROUP EXHIBITION – Specimens
Feb 3 – Mar 6, 2016  Hilltop at Tamborine, Tamborine Mountain, Qld
A specimen is defined as an individual animal, plant, piece of a mineral, etc.
used as an example of its species or type for scientific study or display.
3 artists: Anne Grant, Chrys Zantis and Myself exhibited work in this exhibition as a response to our interpretations of specimens.
I conducted a Polyester Plate Workshop to accompany this exhibition.

Species

SOLO EXHIBITION
Ground Floor, Walkway to Joyce Twedell Building, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
14 DECEMBER 2015 – 15 JANUARY 2016
Biology: A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding. The species is the principal natural taxonomic unit, ranking below a genus and denoted by a Latin binomial, e.g. Homo sapiens.
ORIGIN: late Middle English: from Latin, literally ‘appearance, form, beauty’, from specere ‘to look’.
An exploration of human/animal relationships, zoonotic disease, animals and science and the demonisation of animals utilising drawing and lithography as a narrative tool.

The Skin Im In

SOLO EXHIBITION

2014 July 10 – July 26 The Skin Im In, Solo Exhibition Project Gallery, Griffith University, QLD
2015 Apr 24 – June 6 The Skin Im In, Solo Exhibition, Logan Art Gallery, Qld

Skin is one of the primary elements of our physical makeup. Each bruise, hair, scar and wrinkle becomes a noted passage in the diary of measured time as well as daily life. This private record of events becomes a public show, provoking acknowledgement, acceptance and investigation of one’s own identity and history as marked on the skin. This concept proved to be the basis of this solo exhibition titled ‘The Skin Im In’

Mea Prosapea

SOLO EXHIBITION, Mia Prosapia,  Jan 11 – Feb 18 2012 Logan Art Gallery, QLD

Translating to ‘my female family lineage’, Mea Prosapia is a very personal and focused examination of the dysfunction of the female body. It draws on my perspective as a mother, sister, daughter, granddaughter and sufferer of both type 1 diabetes and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.

Mea Prosapia personally defines my genealogical place and connection with my mother, grandmother, sisters, and potentially my daughter.  A blueprint of flaws that connects us all makes the link instinctively closer.

3 Moths and  Mulberry Leaves,  2011,
lithograph chin colle on stitched,
coloured and pierced mulberry paper,
with red biro drawing