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
While not compulsive, Sarah Lindner's strong desire to engage with her audience, partly explains the theatricality of her kinetic, or otherwise animated sculptures.
A natural innovator and fecund with ideas, Lindner draws for her subject from personal history, an amalgam of childhood mythologies, family, and the experience of self. These constitute not just a site for exploration, but a domain in which opportunity exists to recover remnants of her gender heritage.
In Hymen, Lindner's stretched membrane deafens in excruciating
titillation - a proclamation of her determination to mistress externals, from
within.
Ross Wolfe
from his Samstag essay;
Chaos in Heavean
| Sarah Lindner Born 1970, Tanunda, South Australia |
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| 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 |
Hymen 1994
installation: University of South Australia Art Museum
latex rubber, pink & white gingham, steel, Wernard sewing machine motor, five
electric toothbrushes,
twelve 1955 clothes brushes, sensor
variable dimensions
© the artist
Hymen (detail) 1994
latex rubber, pink & white gingham, steel, Wernard sewing machine motor, five
electric toothbrushes,
twelve 1955 clothes brushes, sensor
26 x 32 cm radius
© the artist