Revue des Deux Mondes

02 Deux Monde

Revue des Deux Mondes examines the notions of horizons as tangible and knowledge based.

The work presents as a freestanding wall. One side of the wall reveals a soil profile of extracted local clays, the other a light-box, illuminating a life size stack of journals photographed from the University of Tasmania library.

The soil profile presents a great slab of earth, exhibiting a stratum of depositions that speak of this place at different times beyond our experience, revealing horizons that habitually rest below our perceived horizons. The light-box stacks read as bands of colour, echoing the bands of colour of the soil strata, yet to read them they expose horizons of knowledge, review and reflection. They illuminate our perceptions of our place, which typically hover above our pragmatic, earthly experience.

The installation offers 2 versions of how we read the world, through a tactile, interactive and real time experience, and as an intellectual, expansive, yet removed point of reference.

Lucy Bleach has lived and worked in Hobart since moving from Sydney in 1999. She has produced work for organised public events such as 10 Days on the Island (2001 and 2007), Sculpture By the Sea, 2001; Creative Landscapes, Artists in Vineyards 2002; and The Hobart Summer Festival 2004. She has produced work within a residency at the Royal Tasmanian Botanic Gardens in 2004, and continues to exhibit in solo and group shows. She has been the recipient of professional development grants from the Australia Council and Arts Tasmania. In 2007 she completed her MFA at the Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS, where she lectures in sculpture.

address
InFlight Elizabeth Street
237 Elizabeth St, Hobart TAS 7000
artists
Lucy Bleach – Artist