The Curtained Window

Maggie Henton: During her residency at Wollongong University, April/May 2004, Maggie Henton intends to beginning a new body of work: The Curtained Window. The windows fascination comes from its complex position between the public and the private; between interior and exterior. Is the window intended to let you look in or out; see or be seen. Does the curtained window evoke the domestic interior space as private and intimate, or as a place of concealment and shame? The curtain conceals the interior, but is also a display of taste. It is envisaged that the layers of space and layers of meaning contained within the curtained window will be explored through the mediums of printed images, cloth, and casts of domestic objects and fragments of interior space. Maggie Henton has been collecting photographs of windows since her last visit to Australia in 2001, and these will form the starting place for this new body of work.

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