Opening Thursday 9 September, 6-8pm
To be opened by Dr Wendy Haslem, Lecturer, Cinema Studies, School of Culture & Communication, The University of Melbourne.
The recipient of the 2010 Tom Malone Prize in glass, Deirdre Feeney presents her most recent body of work engaging with architecture and the moving image.
In seventh eve, Deirdre Feeney works with the pre-cinematic device of the magic lantern to create miniature architectural structures in glass. Cinema, affectionately known as the ‘seventh art’, owes much to its lantern predecessor. This new body of work pays homage to the possibilities of imagination triggered by the advent of the illuminated, projected image.
A mixed-media artist based in Melbourne, Feeney works interchangeably with the translucent material of glass and the moving image to investigate themes of memory, time and empty space. Using architectural glass structures to play with the interaction of inner and outer, she explores how memory infiltrates inside and outside, past and present.
Feeney completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2005 at the Canberra School of Art having previously gained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. She has exhibited in Australia, Asia and the UK. In 2009 Feeney was awarded the Stephen Procter Travelling Fellowship with which she carried out research on cinema theatres in Paris.
Resources
seventh eve catalogue – essay by Ray Edgar
Opening remarks by Dr Wendy Haslem
