KATE Scardifield is back in action at the Glasshouse as an artist in residence with a seven video channel work on display and a subsequent series of adaptable forms that feature in the video work.
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The exhibit is named ‘when moving through ruins’ and open to the public from 6pm on October 28.
“It’s sort of about sadness and sorrow and a bit of a meditation of tears in a way,” she said.
Ms Scardifield believes that as an artist the work that a person creates is always inherently personal in some way.
“For me it was about trying to position this idea of sadness as not something which is a weakness or something negative but actually thinking more about the power that can come from vulnerability,” she said.
Ms Scardifield has been slowly chipping away at different approaches since she came up with the idea 18 months ago.
“I tend to work a lot with textile and sculpture but video is a really new material for me,” she said.
There is no narrative structure to the video work, Ms Scardifield said it is more like a kinetic sculpture.
A lot of her previous work involves looking at a body’s relationship to cloth and fabric.
“For this work there are seven different people who inhabit these forms and author them,” she said.
Her inspiration for different works Ms Scardifield said comes from exploring different places around the world and researching the history of art.
Ms Scardifield was last in Port Macquarie in July which was her first visit to the region, as she resides in Sydney.
“The Glasshouse presents me with an opportunity to display my work to an entirely new audience,” she said.
Ms Scardifield will be doing an artist talk on November 24 and an ‘experimental threads’ workshop on November 26.