Collecting Identity - the PINcard game
Institution: | University of Newcastle |
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Department: | |
Degree: | PhD |
Year: | 2015 |
Keywords: | multiple meanings of artworks; identity; Australian art; artworks |
Record ID: | 1060611 |
Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1059882 |
Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Recollection from the artist - age 17, 1972. I walked into my grandmother’s kitchen, the larger of two in the big old house in Marrickville. She had always lived with us - or we with her. There was an array of utensils, cups and plates on the sink. Some were washed and stacked; others awaited her attention. They sat, suspended by the energy of her life. I was transfixed. They were no longer just objects, but now loaded with meaning as her belongings, a testament of her life, soon to disappear. She had suffered a stroke in the early hours of that morning and never returned to her kitchen.…… such is my life-long obsession with the stories that objects and images from everyday life can tell.