Diagram for a posey

Research Background
This exhibition focuses upon artists' ongoing experiments in medium and meaning. Selected works reflect historical and contemporary shifts towards the unmonumental in sculpture. This continues a significant area of research in contemporary art globally as evident in the major exhibition at the New Museum,New York, USA Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century.
Research Significance
Incorporating elements of decoration and design, and dynamics of scale, the exhibition?also displays an interest in a domestication of modernism. Black elastic, two umbrellas, a mint leaf and wheels encourages conversations regarding form and mode between and across media. The work 'Diagram for a Posey' 1994, has not been exhibited before, and in the context of this exhibition highlights it as a significant work from the Monash University Museum of Art. In that it engages with abstraction, concepts of simulacra, natural and artificial representations of nature and space. A PDF catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Research Contribution
It is innovative as the exploration of the colour laser photocopier in the early 1990's was a new technology. Weaver contributed to the research in this medium as a printmaking strategy that combined established and new technologies. Weaver's research contributed to the CLC as an excepted and bona fide print medium in Australia. This work printed on Japanese paper from an original photograph, combined with supplementary layer of embroidered thread further extends the concepts of collage and assemblage. In particular the process of embroidering through the surface of the image contributed to new technological and conceptual knowledge in this field and has been highly influential.

研究背景
本展览聚焦于艺术家在媒介与意义维度上的持续探索实验。甄选作品展现了雕塑领域从历史到当代的去纪念碑化（unmonumental）转向。这一方向延续了全球当代艺术中一个重要的研究领域，正如美国纽约新美术馆（New Museum）举办的大型展览《非纪念碑性：21世纪的物体》（Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century）所彰显的那样。

研究意义
本次展览融入装饰与设计元素，以及尺度变化的动态性，同时亦体现出对现代主义日常驯化的探讨兴趣。黑色弹力绳、两把雨伞、一片薄荷叶与车轮等元素，能够引发不同媒介间关于形式与范式的对话。1994年的作品《花束图解》（Diagram for a Posey）此前从未公开展出，在本次展览的语境下，其作为莫纳什大学美术馆（Monash University Museum of Art）的重要馆藏作品得以亮相。该作品涉及抽象主义、拟像（simulacra）概念，以及自然与空间的自然、人工再现方式。本展览同步推出PDF版展览手册。

研究贡献
本研究具有创新性：20世纪90年代初，彩色激光复印机（colour laser photocopier）尚属新兴技术，而韦弗（Weaver）以该媒介作为结合传统与新兴技术的版画创作策略，为相关研究做出了贡献。韦弗的研究推动了CLC在澳大利亚成为被广泛认可的正规版画创作媒介。本次展出的作品以原作照片为底本，印制于日本和纸上，并辅以刺绣线作为附加图层，进一步拓展了拼贴与集合艺术的创作理念。尤为关键的是，透过图像表面进行刺绣的创作过程，为该领域带来了全新的技术与概念认知，且极具行业影响力。