The 2005 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
| Edward Wright | Jemima Wyman |
Artist: MIKALA DWYER
Lovesongs for the Cannibals 2003
mixed media installation
variable dimensions
© the artist
Wish Flower 2004
wood
158 X 93 X 81 cm
© the artist
The great shadow of Modernism casts itself across all these works, as it casts itself over everything else. It is quite inescapable. Here, the phenomenon of Modernism is both revered - as is evident in the artists' use of materials, tools and techniques that carry an aura of sleek modernity - and decried......Modernism is (or was) a hydra-headed monster and these artists, like most of those who set out to escape it, end up by paying it homage. It is, after all, the only reference point we have, for better or for worse, and we construct Modernism in a multitude of ways, each according to our own needs.
Peter Timms
from his Samstag catalogue essay;
Art in an Age of Anxiety
| Mikala Dwyer Born 1959, Sydney, New South Wales |
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| 2005 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship International Student, Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany |
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| 2003 | Master of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Sydney | |
| 1983 | Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney |
| Edward Wright | Jemima Wyman |