Objects 2002

Catalogue / Memoir
Introduction Pictures Objects Animations

OBJECTS are individual things and installations of many things.

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Life and Death

The Life and Death Show began as a community response to the 2001 September 11 disaster. It evolved as a sharing of stories of deep personal and cultural loss. It brought together people and seeded enduring and vital relationships.

Hosted by Judith Azimus, Director of the newly established Cleveland House Stables Gallery in Cleveland, Tasmania, 31 March - 28 April 2002, she showed works by artists living at that time in Tasmana: Jo Anglesey, E.M. Christensen, Bron Fionnachd-Fin, Merril Gough, John Haire, Ralph Haertel, Gay Hawkes, Trudy Humphries, Jennifer Line, Harold McGee, Trish Newham, Juliet Partridge, Sharon Pittaway, Melissa Smith, Rylton Viney, Helene Weeding, Vicky Lee West, Katy Woodfruff, Lisa Roberts.

The idea for the show grew from conversations I was having with Jennifer Line, a Hobart-based artist and health worker I met shortly before I left for Antarctica. Our conversations revolved around loss and grief: the impending loss of Jennifer's lifelong partner to cancer, and the loss of entire ecosystems with human's massive burning of fossil fuels.

Jennifer and I became catalysts for an artist-driven exhibition.

Word spread around. Artists who were similarly moved by the September 11 disaster contributed works that related lives lost in that event to losses experienced in their own lives, families and communities.

By the time I returned from Antarctica, Jennifer's partner had died. In our absence, Judith Azimus had opened up her new gallery as a space for artists to meet and share ideas, and had mounted an astonishingly moving exhibition. The Life and Death Show was opened to a huge gathering of people by the Mayor of Launceston, Janie Dickenson. Before the crowds arrived, I took these photos:

2003 Jennifer Line Shroud