The Samstag Alumni
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
In previous work, Beevors fabricated enormous simulations of household attics, stairs and laundries, gorged with the stuff of women's domestic labour - a congestion of greying plastic and biodegradable Zeitgeist. These spent suburban corpses, denuded of their superficial sheen, mirrored the repressed underbelly of all our lives - the mundanity of our consumption and domestic practice.
The gender materiality in Michele Beevor's soft, domestic sculptures, by
contrast serves a different purpose. In her latest work, Fowlerware, Beevors
shifts her gaze to other household signifiers. For example, a pink-sponge toilet
and cistern is an absurd Duchampian vessel. Crammed with shavers, it sags with
imminent saturation - an icon of our dependence.
Ross Wolfe
from his Samstag essay;
Chaos in Heavean
| Michele Beevors Born 1964, Sydney, New South Wales |
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| 1994 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship MFA, Colombia University, New York, USA |
| 1993 | Master of Arts (Visual Arts), Australian National University, Canberra |
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| michelebeevors.com |
Fowlerware 1994
installation: University of South Australia Art Museum
sponge, wetex and disposable razors
various dimensions
© the artist
Fowlerware (detail) 1994
installation: University of South Australia Art Museum
sponge, wetex and disposable razors
various dimensions
© the artist