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The 1994 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships

Lynne Barwick | Michele Beevors | Matthew Calvert | ADS Donaldson
Sarah Lindner | Anne Ooms | Robyn Stacey | Carl Sutherland
Paul Uhlmann | Anne Wallace

Artist: LYNNE BARWICK


Lynne Barwick installation

Untitled pyramid, rope and PVC piece 1994
installation: University of South Australia Art Museum
Untitled bowling ball piece: Untitled pyramid piece: Untitled rope piece
pierced rubber sheeting, rope, PVC, rubber, staples and elastic
various dimensions
© the artist
 


The invocation of sexuality in Lynne Barwick's fleshy, vinyl and rubber fetishisms, is more an allusion than a central doctrine.  Of more particular concern to her, is the process by which theory and meaning become objectified in works of art.  In this context, the sex-laden surfaces and bumps of her trashy, though costly materials, remain consciously ambiguous, abetted by humour.

Beneath the carefully-determined materiality is a pornology of obsessive detailing, repetition, excess and revulsion.

 

Ross Wolfe
from his Samstag essay;
Chaos in Heavean


Lynne Barwick
Born 1969, Canberra, ACT
1994 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
MFA School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
1992 Bachelor of Visual Arts, University of South Australia, Adelaide

Lynne Barwick | Michele Beevors | Matthew Calvert | ADS Donaldson
Sarah Lindner | Anne Ooms | Robyn Stacey | Carl Sutherland
Paul Uhlmann | Anne Wallace