Surface Tension
Sally Clarke and Brenda Factor
ANCA Gallery Canberra/Kamberri 15 May – 2 June 2024
Artists Talks Saturday 1 June 2-3pm
This exhibition contains paintings, moving images, sculptures, noisy shells, a phallic (I) eye, and vitreous enamel surfaces. It responds to a seashell collection that began in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which has remain packaged and ethically and emotionally complex for over 40 years. The exhibition connects ideas around materiality, memory, place, beauty, value, desire, abstraction, and symbolism.
ANCA Gallery 1 Rosevear Place Dickson ACT. Opening hours Wed to Sun 12-5pm
The artists acknowledge the people of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri language groups as the traditional owners of lands extending throughout the ACT and surrounding regions. We pay our deepest respects to Elders past, present and future, and recognise their community’s continuous connection to Countrycfor over 60,000 years. We applaud the ACT government’s steps toward healing and Treaty.
Images: Left and right: Brenda Factor, vitreous enamel brooch (detail), 2024. Centre: Sally Clarke, The Pale Carrier, 2022, acrylic on vinyl. Photos: Sally Clarke