Rising artist Amy Craig, 2010 winner of the Prime Minister’s Australian Youth Forum Challenge, will be exhibiting her latest exhibition days’ end/ the silent room grinds gray/ I tap at the Japan Foundation Gallery from 10 – 27 August 2010.

In days’ end/ the silent room grinds gray/ I tap, Amy explores the places of our interior spaces, revealing the complex relationship between spatial geometry and social processes. She creates replicated, referential sculptural centrepieces made with clay and beeswax, and uses video projection to indicate the possibilities for human interaction of the space within.

It begins with the tsunokakushi (a Japanese bridal headpiece), a symbol of resolve, intimacy and domesticity for the bride. With this as a starting point, the spatial silences of the gallery are filled with the exploration of other signifiers of the private life.

The unusual title, days’ end/ the silent room grinds gray/ I tap, is a ‘rooku’ (an Australian variant of the haiku), and encapsulates the tone of the exhibition – of the spatial and emotional character of the installation works within.

“I find the possibilities sculpture, performance and installation possess for communicating the encounters with the genuine, the tenuous and the potent gradients of these days an ever-fascinating, motivating, spring for my artistic practice.”

About the Artists:

Amy Craig has completed studies for a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW and recently exhibited in the Arts Actuels Biennale of La Reunion 09.

As a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice circumnavigates passivity, the artistic actions undertaken for the past two years have been the continual exploration and re-exploration of, in essence, ‘transcendental notions entertained during a car trip to Bunnings’.

photo: courtesy of Thomas Kinsman