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Ghost of Hearts
Video installation.
This work explores the ideas of what we cannot see, what we imagine and what touches us through a presence that becomes a dance around of pleasure and denial, of dominance and control. The texts on pillowcases are slang terms for lesbians. Words that have mixed responses from within our queer communities and words that have been forgotten.
2. Dust
Text on fabric print of image.
This work is an emotive response to the site to the visible and invisible signs of otherness.
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Searching for Ghosts of Desire.
Video projection onto pinned up women’s handkerchiefs with sound.
This space adjoins the laundry but was attached in so many ways. The video work creates a dance of ghosts twirling against the backdrops of religious symbols and architecture photographed in infrared
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Levitating Love.
Installation work with mannequins, neon and fabric drops.
This work reference so many spaces of belief in the other as something ritualistic and something that requires proof. Levitation often photographed to reveal the wires and hoists in Victorian Era parlours, and the eternal sign of women suggest offerings that are sexual and a willingness to forgo disbelief.
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Bride Moment
A suspended vintage wedding dress sitting in a corner. Projection goes across the wall and the wedding dress. There is no sound. Getting married was a form of control and yet one of agency as the women here sough escape or safety from and to marriage. The story of brides of Christ was that women would pass their wedding dresses to the convent for the nuns ‘wedding’ to Christ.
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Architecture of the Lost
A tv sits on the floor against the internal wall. Playing a video work. No sound. There is a other worldly figure with printed fabric drop of the Aurora sculpture. Standing as a ghostly audience to the video work that distorts the site into whirling textures.
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River Diaries and Pocket Stones
This video projection is directly onto a corner door in the second room. No Sound.
There are many rumours of drownings and escapes in the river nearby. This work is projected onto the door nearest to the river walks. ‘Pocket Stones’ always remind me of Virginia Woolfe who suicided by walking into a river with her pockets full of stones.
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Worthy.
This spoken word piece is a response to the documentation of the history of the women on the site, asking the questions every archivist asks of evidence. It is available through the QR Code direct to a Vimeo Link.