The Samstag Alumni
The 1993 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
Shane Carn |
Robert Cleworth |
Sally Cox |
Mark Hislop
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Jacqueline Hocking |
Nigel Jamieson |
Ruth McDougall |
Sally Mannall
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Ruth Marshall |
Roger Noakes
Only one generation removed from her Irish heritage, Jacqueline Hocking has a keen sense of the connection between Australian post-colonial history, and the rift between Irish and English, this informing her interest in issues of class and social division.
Hocking takes large quantities of domestic dinnerware, some of it intact - much of it broken remnants - and systematically encodes each plate or shard with phrases and words such as "class", "structure", "order" and "system". Now processed into their classifications and subservient order, the plates and shards are immaculately boxed and presented, forming a paradigm of the way in which society sets up systems to categorise itself.
Ross Wolfe
from his Samstag essay;
Samstag The First Millenium
| Jacqueline Hocking Born 1971, Brisbane, Queensland |
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| 1993 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship MFA, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| 1992 | Bachelor of Visual Arts, University of New England, Lismore |
Seed and reseed 1992
screen-printed decals on ceramic shards in 24 boxed assemblages and 16 whole
ceramic plates
each box 12 x 24 cm
© the artist
Seed and reseed (detail) 1992
screen-printed decals on ceramic shards in 24 boxed assemblages and 16 whole
ceramic plates
each box 12 x 24 cm
© the artist