Wink, blink & squint

Duxbury was among a dozen Australian artists invited to take part in this biannual exhibition of works on paper with a new body of work. The underpinning concept was the individual interpretation of performance and enactment. The work wink, blink and squint related to those in the exhibition by Hossein Valamanesh, Noel McKenna and Deborah Paauwe. Wink, Blink and Squint is a series of three related photographic, print-based images that addresses ideas of movement and pause, to mobilise the viewer into "performance".
Utilising the illusory, transient and obscurant subject matter of cloud formations, enabled a reference to time passing time. To explore ways viewers may act or perform by drawing on individual experiences of visual perception - both physical and imaginary - my goal was to get viewers to perform the acts of winking, blinking and squinting, acknowledged as visual perception. The works combined photography and printmaking, image and text in an innovative way.
"Duxbury's cloud formations and dust particles are subjects of collective currency, and she links these to individual experience and memory by involving her viewers, by being surreptitious about the separation of audience and artistic vision, and allowing a space for imagining." (Curator Lesley Harding, catalogue essay).
Seen by innumerable theatregoers, the general public and art-gallery visitors in three states, the exhibition went from the prestigious George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre to UTS Gallery, Sydney and Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre. Blink was purchased by the Victorian Arts Centre.

达克斯伯里（Duxbury）是受邀携全新创作系列参与本届双年纸上作品展的十二位澳大利亚艺术家之一。本次展览的核心概念为对表演与展演的个体性阐释。其作品《瞬视·眨视·眯视》（Wink, Blink and Squint）与参展艺术家侯赛因·瓦拉马内什（Hossein Valamanesh）、诺埃尔·麦肯纳（Noel McKenna）及黛博拉·保维（Deborah Paauwe）的创作形成呼应。
《瞬视·眨视·眯视》由三件关联紧密的摄影与版画复合影像构成，围绕运动与停顿的议题展开，旨在引导观者进入“表演”状态。
通过运用云团形态这一兼具虚幻性、转瞬即逝性与朦胧暧昧性的创作主题，作品得以呼应时间流逝的意象。为探索观者如何依托具身与想象层面的视觉感知个体经验进行行动或展演，创作者的核心目标是引导观者完成眨眼、眯视等被视作视觉感知行为的动作。该系列作品以创新手法融合了摄影与版画创作，以及图像与文字元素。
策展人莱斯利·哈丁（Lesley Harding）在展览目录文章中写道：“达克斯伯里以云团与尘粒作为兼具公共性的创作主题，并通过模糊观众与艺术视野的边界，为观者预留想象空间，将这些主题与个体经验及记忆相连。”
本次展览先后亮相享誉盛名的维多利亚艺术中心乔治·亚当斯画廊、悉尼科技大学（UTS）画廊及阿德莱德艺术节中心艺术空间，吸引了三大州的无数戏剧观众、普通民众与艺术场馆参观者前来观展。其中作品《眨视》（Blink）被维多利亚艺术中心收藏。