exhibitions
The Five Obstructions: Just Glad Wrap, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victoria College of Arts
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Dear artists, I am writing to ask if you would like to be part of an exhibition. The five hindrances/five easy steps (working title) is about the obstructions to making and viewing art, and the freedoms, constraints and refusals implicit in the exhibition process. There is no curatorial brief.
[steal an idea]
Here is what I can say — / I’ve / never had my own catalogue / never said never / never not turned up / never said I never say no / never ever never never / (then) / How’s this? / never say no / never not turn up / never not cry / never say never / never ever say everything / Let me know if it needs further revising /
Francesca Rendle-Short loves to work with words, across art forms and media. She is very interested in the way an arts practice and the process of making imaginative work can inform the direction writing and research can take. She is also interested in writing from the body, how a writer’s body operates and survives as the language of the process. In this work wants to step into the work, become the work with her writing body — muscle, ink, rain. She has never actually writtenonwalls quite like this before.
other exhibitions
‘Song, Sender, X, Martina Copley and Francesca Rendle-Short (BLINDSIDE, B – Side).
‘Sketches/Skizzen: A little book of breathing’ with Judy Horacek, Schloss Haldenstein in the studio of Kulturatelier, Switzerland during an exchange by arrangement between Kanton Graubünden, Switzerland, and the School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra.
‘What do you want of me?’ in Non, curated by Martina Copley, part of NonfictioNOW, First Site, RMIT — Non. designates negative space, that which is not, or other than. An oscillation, this constitutive boundary (a fictional figment) confers an uncertain status. With Non. meaning itself becomes untethered. It comes in shades, stammers and new distances. And in aleatory encounters and new social imaginaries that in turn construct meaning.
‘Hanging by a thread’ in Feathering the Nest, curated by Melody Ellis and Sarah Logan, Garage Openings.
‘Write with the body / Skin. Bones, Blood.’ a triptych in words with paper and hair in Writing naked, in celebration of the Melbourne Writers Festival, RMIT 36.
