A Faded Rose from Days Gone By

The context for the exhibition was conceived by Martina Copley and Rhett D'Costa. It became an exhibition in which six selected artists invited an artist each to exhibit alongside. Each of the pairing developed a dialogue to determine how the artists would engage with each other. Counterpoint and confluence in the relations between paired works open up the space to a multiplicity of dialogues. Possible readings in the work presented became prismatic and suggest various ways of?thinking about drawing in the most expansive way. The exhibition operated as a satellite show for the Drawing Out Conference conducted at RMIT University.

I worked with Fran van Riemsdyk on a project which started with the idea of rose prunning. The dialogue led to my work which striated across the wall resembling an abstracted version of pruned rose bushes, but opened up spatial readings which examined fractured spaces without demarcation. Movements across these spaces opens up possibilities of shared spaces with commonalities rather than demarcation which become fixed and permanent. These ideas relate directly to my ongoing investigation relating to my Phd.- Shimmering Spaces: Installation practices informed by an Anglo-Indian experience. The colored monochromes relate to existing 'English' roses from my garden and as the title suggests, hints at 'days gone by', a subliminal reference to colonialisation and the British Raj.

本次展览的策展构思由玛蒂娜·科普利（Martina Copley）与瑞特·德·科斯塔（Rhett D'Costa）提出。本届展览中，六位入选艺术家各自邀请一名搭档艺术家联袂参展。每一组搭档均通过深度对话，敲定双方作品的互动呈现方式。双人作品间形成的对位呼应与交融共生关系，为多重对话的展开提供了广阔空间。参展作品的解读视角呈现出棱镜般的丰富层次，启发人们以最开阔的维度重新审视素描创作。本次展览作为皇家墨尔本理工大学（RMIT University）举办的"Drawing Out"会议的卫星展同步呈现。

我与弗兰·范·里姆斯戴克（Fran van Riemsdyk）合作开展了一项以玫瑰修剪为灵感的创作项目。经由双方的对话协作，我最终完成的作品以条纹状铺展于墙面，形似抽象化的修剪后玫瑰丛，却开辟出可供多维解读的空间维度，探讨了无边界的破碎空间。穿行于这类空间的体验，指向了拥有共通性的共享空间的可能性，而非固化且永恒的边界划分。这些理念直接关联于我正在进行的博士研究——《闪烁空间：基于盎格鲁-印度经历的装置创作实践》（Shimmering Spaces: Installation practices informed by an Anglo-Indian experience）。作品中的彩色单色创作取材于我花园中现存的‘英式’玫瑰，正如标题所暗示的那样，暗含着‘往昔岁月’，隐晦地指向殖民历史与英属印度时期（British Raj）。