MARY-LOUISE BROWNE REIFY, 13 JULY - 7 AUGUST 2010
To reify is to turn abstract concepts into real objects and this is exactly what Mary-Louise Browne does in this exhibition. REIFY comprises two related bodies of works - one a series of school mottoes stitched in gold lettering on damask linen and the other, a series of ideas about representation etched on brass plaques. Her ideas grew out of an artist residency at the Taipei Artists Village in Taiwan earlier this year. There, working predominantly with Taiwanese greenstone, she explored ideas around commemoration and the memorial and souvenir and these ideas continue to play out in the new exhibition. With her daughter going to school in Taipei, she became interested in the way mottoes and maxims are employed, both aspirationally and inspirationally in east and west. Additionally, Browne says her encounter with Chinese iconography - where signs and symbols often represent ideas - led her to reading and thinking more about how things and ideas are described visually and the brass pieces are reworkings from theoretical texts and articles.
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Reach for the skies, 2010 gold thread on damask linen, molded frame, 520 x 510 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Reach for the skies, 2010 gold thread on damask linen, molded frame, 520 x 510 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Success through effort, 2010 gold thread on damask linen, molded frame, 520 x 510 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Explore and achieve, 2010 gold thread on damask linen, molded frame, 520 x 510 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Seek the highest, 2010 gold thread on damask linen, molded frame, 520 x 510 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Service before self, 2010 gold thread on damask linen, molded frame, 520 x 510 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Play the game, 2010 gold thread on damask linen, moulded frame, 520 x 510 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Knowledge is power, 2010 gold thread on damask linen, 520 x 510 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Forever and ever be strong, 2010 gold thread on damask linen, 520 x 510 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Search for great things, 2010 gold thread on damask linen, 520 x 510 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne Strength through experience, 2010 gold thread on damask linen, 520 x 510 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This plaque is placed..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This representation represents..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This artwork exists to question the demands made of art objects..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This artwork presents representationality..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This artwork is self-interpreting..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This artwork represents..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This plaque can be repossessed through aesthetic transformation..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This is a simulacrum..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This unsigned artwork questions..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This unsigned artwork questions..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This artwork may appear autonomous ..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This artwork is poised between the optical and the material..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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 | Mary-Louise Browne This artwork offers a resistance to the viewer's fantasy..., 2010 etched brass, 150 x 210 mm |
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