Sacred Fragments by Dr. Melissa Laird
29 June – 31 July 2013
Melissa Laird
29 June – 31 July 2013
Melissa Laird
EXHIBITION
In 2012, Allyson Hoft, owner of Wollombi Wines and curator Arthur Chan selected artist Melissa Laird, for the Wollombi Wines Residency Award of SINV2012. Melissa will engage in a special residency exhibition of her visual essay, Sacred Fragments in July 2013.
Melissa has developed a body of work in which the lives of the pioneering women of the Wollombi district is examined. This series took foundation in elements of everyday lives which often neglected in histories or formal accounts of events.
The series expressed new relationships between objects to tell stories of women at work and at rest, displaced, bearing new lives or dealing with mortality: desire, fear, trepidation, quietude, recollection and remembrance. Melissa re-establish a historical account of womens’ lives in a developing community during the mid-1850s for contemporary viewers.
In 2012, Allyson Hoft, owner of Wollombi Wines and curator Arthur Chan selected artist Melissa Laird, for the Wollombi Wines Residency Award of SINV2012. Melissa will engage in a special residency exhibition of her visual essay, Sacred Fragments in July 2013.
Melissa has developed a body of work in which the lives of the pioneering women of the Wollombi district is examined. This series took foundation in elements of everyday lives which often neglected in histories or formal accounts of events.
The series expressed new relationships between objects to tell stories of women at work and at rest, displaced, bearing new lives or dealing with mortality: desire, fear, trepidation, quietude, recollection and remembrance. Melissa re-establish a historical account of womens’ lives in a developing community during the mid-1850s for contemporary viewers.
Melissa will be exhibiting at Wollombi Wines from 29th June 2013. You can meet with Melissa and discuss her unique perspective during our artist’s talks at Wollombi Wines on 21 July 2013.
“very interesting in terms of taking viewers on a personal journey through the history of women in Wollombi. Melissa's artwork evidenced a diligent level of research and sophistication, successfully produced a high level hybrid of art and artefact, uncovering the untold and hidden stories”
- Sarah Johnson, senior curator at Newcastle Art Gallery, 2012, Sculpture in the Vineyards exhibition Catalogue)
- Sarah Johnson, senior curator at Newcastle Art Gallery, 2012, Sculpture in the Vineyards exhibition Catalogue)
| Wollombi Wines is a long standing supporter of the art community in the Hunter Region. In 2013, to celebrate the Hunter Valley Wine and Food Month, Wollombi Wines reunited with Arthur Chan, curator of Sculpture in the Vineyards 2012, to present 2 'food for thoughts' exhibitions, both exhibitions will hold special events in June 2013.
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