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Bartholomew
Global Markings & Zhongjian Midway – 2009













A series of work titled Global Markings was created for the touring exhibition ZHONGJIAN: MIDWAY. This project focused on the dynamic inter-change between an increasingly commodified global culture and the changing identity of Chinese women. Due to my long-term interest in bodies as a site for the expression of social and cultural change, I decided to use objects associated with body modification such as women’s accessories from traditional and contemporary China. These objects express the co-existence of past and present body modification practices that are relevant within the context of a country experiencing rapid modernisation and exposure to global values and branding, within a very short time. These ceramic objects refer to the compression of time in relation to Chinese female identity.
Exhibitions:
Jam Factory, Adelaide
9 May to 21 June 2009
From Mao to Now
Armory Gallery & Newington Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park
2008
Mirage: Ceramic Experiments with Contemporary Nomads
Shanghai Duolun Modern Art Museum, Shanghai China
February to March, 2011
Another Silk Road
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
2 to 25 July, 2009
Narrative
Sabbia Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney
August, 2008
20/10 China China
Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China
2008
Time travel: reimagining the past
Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah
9 April to 30 July, 2010
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