A Tidy House - Sixfold Project Exhibition
December 2024 - February 2025 - Cairns Art Gallery
A Tidy House delved into the multifaceted ideas and interpretations of the home. While a house is a universal, familiar and tangible architectural structure, it is, above all, a private and personal realm where we experience much of our lives.
Sixfold Project artists employed the gamut of their multidisciplinary art practices to investigate the significant role that the house continues to have in all our lives. Six "Friends-Over-Long-Distance" – Raewyn Biggs (Cook Islands), Barbara Dover (FNQ), Louisa Ennis-Thomas (VIC), Julie Poulsen (FNQ), Rose Rigley (NSW) and Jennifer Valmadre (FNQ).
Creating these artworks allowed me to emotionally and psychologically clean my internal and intangible memory house. Concurrently, I was packing up, culling, distributing, and dispersing the content of my physical place of safety, essentially making myself homeless, to coincide with A Tidy House exhibition. Was this art imitating life or the creative process influencing life? - Rose Rigley
Sixfold Project artists employed the gamut of their multidisciplinary art practices to investigate the significant role that the house continues to have in all our lives. Six "Friends-Over-Long-Distance" – Raewyn Biggs (Cook Islands), Barbara Dover (FNQ), Louisa Ennis-Thomas (VIC), Julie Poulsen (FNQ), Rose Rigley (NSW) and Jennifer Valmadre (FNQ).
Creating these artworks allowed me to emotionally and psychologically clean my internal and intangible memory house. Concurrently, I was packing up, culling, distributing, and dispersing the content of my physical place of safety, essentially making myself homeless, to coincide with A Tidy House exhibition. Was this art imitating life or the creative process influencing life? - Rose Rigley
Images: Michael Marzik