Saturday 18 August 2012

WATCH THIS SPACE


This site is dedicated to an interview between Sally Brown and the editors of a special issue of Coolabah. Ray Norman reviewed Sally's exhibition at the Design Centre Tasmania located in Launceston – REMADE: Objects by Sally Brown. That exhibition is the sparking point for this interview.

Norman's review entitled REMADE, REWORKED, REIMAGINED: Sally Brown talks about place looked at Sally Brown in the context of her, and her work, being  shaped by  a set of sensibilities deeply embedded in place. For quite a long time it has been claimed that cultural production in Tasmania has an inimitable and idiosyncratic place within the scheme of things. Sally Brown, a young Tasmanian designer, maker, artist, is unlikely to make this kind of claim for her work. Nonetheless, there is a particular sensibility evident in her work that it is doubtful that one might find anywhere other than in Tasmania – or indeed made by someone of an older generation. This 'interview' will attempt to unpick some of the thinking to do with the placedness, the vernacular social paradigm, the subliminal politics, the ‘crafting’ and the cultural savvy that gives Sally Brown’s work its presence. The questions that hang in the air around a collection of Sally Brown’s work are those to do with the ways local cultural imperatives might shape and make places they are found in and in what ways might places shape the cultural realities that inhabit them.

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