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One APRON AT A TIME

20 August – 13 September 2009

Flossie Peitsch, PhD
Artist Talk: 20 August @ 11:30am
Exhibition Opening: 20 August @ 12:30pm

Wearing one’s history is easier and harder than may be realized. But the past can conceal a future bias. Through the walk of daily life, community and communion are closely linked. Consciously or otherwise, this is how life’s ultimate questions seem to be answered –Where am I? Why am I here? Who am I?

The Long Gallery presents an exhibition by Canadian born, Wollongong based, visual artist Flossie Peitsch. The multifaceted installations of this exhibition are an inquiry into the everyday environment of changing family relationships and abstracted routines. “The work is about family and community values and the ties that bind, both in a spiritual and physical sense”.

The exhibition will be open to the public from 20 August 2009, commencing with an Artist Talk and Performance Art piece @ 11.30am, followed by the official Exhibition Opening at 12.30pm. Light refreshments will be served – all are welcome to attend.

Artist Statement:

Applying marketing insights, there is a new search for meaning in life. As Tacey (2003, p.2) comments; ‘We are caught in a difficult moment in history, stuck between a secular system we have out grown and a religious system we cannot fully embrace’. Clearly a spirituality exists in Australia that is no longer associated with religion or consigned only to the indigenous. The starting point for this spirituality is in the everyday. A microcosm of society, it exists in families and in communities.

The creative outcome of a doctoral research thesis and the artist’s thirty year international practice, this exhibition is widely engaging. Minimalist depictions of the familiar become unusual metaphors for the self and spirituality offering a common, though thought-provoking, ground of being.

Once Apron a Time ties into the artist’s journey as an immigrant finding place and space in Australia. The installations incorporate fabric, found objects, wood construction, acrylic banners, and digital composition, soundscape and performance to deconstruct fixed, preconceived community and religious references.

September 11th has increased a fear of other cultures. There has never been a better time to globally effect much more than tolerance but to search for common values, visions and discover a universal spirituality as transferred through communities. Through art seeking the immortal now, the role of faith in building a harmonious multi-cultural society is explored.

Tacey, David. 2003. The Spirituality Revolution – the emergence of contemporary spirituality. HarperCollins, Sydney

The exhibition:

Installations:
Manse - Bluescope - Platform

DVD Productions:
Faithing, Duration 6 minutes - Though a spiritual journey can be isolating, no one is completely alone. There are other travellers with whom to connect. At times community is supportive, and at other times it is a trial. At all times, joining together seems to require a stepping out. The Peitsch family starts from a safe enclave. Without looking back, each strides into a separate future, donning an ‘apron of service’ in the process. They are surrounded by a crowd of voices, seemingly from within and without. Each carries nothing but who he or she is intrinsically.
Facing God, Duration 7 minutes - The divine has been faced in many ways throughout history, but can this face be perceived by anyone? This query, in the form of Peitsch’s self-reflexive poetic narrative, provides the words for FACING. People from various cultural backgrounds combine as one questioning voice, layered on images of Italian and Australian roadside shrines, or semblances thereof, and slip into abstraction and back. The search for ‘the mystery’ is itself the mystery.\

Performance Art:
Inspired - The wide expectation that artists are here to make a difference to their culture, all the while being mostly kept poor and without privilege continues into this century. Upon invitation, Peitsch is to visit various art studios and classrooms for a ten minute duration for three consecutive visits wearing a pillowcase, eye glasses and displaying one sign at a time…..’FAILED ARTIST’, ‘GREAT ARTIST’, and ‘OKAY ARTIST’….during or proceeding the duration of the exhibition.

See Exhibition Poster
http://flossiepeitsch.com
http://myblog.flossiepeitsch.com

Admission is free to all galleries at the Faculty of Creative Arts.
Gallery Opening Hours are 9am–5pm, Monday to Friday

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Location:
Long Gallery and Glass Cabinets
Faculty of Creative Arts
Upstairs, Building 25
University of Wollongong

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Parking: Pay and Display parking is available in the Western Carpark for visitors to the University. View Maps

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School of Art and Design, Faculty of Creative Arts
Phone: 02 4221 5853 or 02 4221 3996
Email: aandd_info@uow.edu.au

August 2009
Faculty of Creative Arts
University of Wollongong