Currently showing is Finding Your Way:aids to a personal migration by Deb Bain-King who works
primarily with photography, video, and installation to create situations that
engage with how people share space with each other. Deb’s experience of working
with refugees and her own life’s journey
has expanded this to focus on the experience of displacement and of how people
move toward a sense of finding home.
The work finding your way: aids to a personal
migration is a series of nine duratrans prints measuring 675mm x 382 mm.
The prints are set into the PS50 boxes with internal lighting to create a
functioning light box space.
The work reflects upon the aspects that
affect the journeys we make to finding place and home. The ephemeral things
such as the hopes and beliefs we carry, the passing of time, and the idea of
justice and fairness as a value to uphold. It also draws upon the more physical
aspects of journey such as the landmarks we pass, the stars that guide us, and
the sense of finally finding the warmth and comfort of home.
Artist
Biography:
Deb has been working as a
collaborative and solo artist for over 10 years. She is a founding member of
the collaborative artist group ‘Space Pork Adventures’ which between 2003-2007
created numerous performative, site specific and ephemeral works. 'Space Pork
Adventures' participated in ‘Multiple Miscellaneous Alliances’ at CLUBSproject
in 2004 and were commissioned by ACCA to create a series of works for +Factors
as part of the 2006 Commonwealth games. A residency with Red Gate Galleries in
2007 produced a projection work, People Who Don’t Know Each
Other, which was shown at the Beijing Olympics Cultural
Exhibition in 2008 and the Big Screen at Federation Square. Her 2009 visit to
Israel inspired a number of videos and installations responding to the
Bethlehem Wall. In 2011
she travelled to Xian Yang as part of a public art project with the Masters
program for RMIT Art in Public Place, making links with Chinese families that
have in part inspired her latest work, Finding Your Way.
Deb has a Masters in Fine Art from Monash University and a
Graduate Diploma in Art in Public Space from RMIT. She been on the
committee of Trocadero Art Space in Footscray and has curated shows at the
Incinerator Gallery and C3 Contemporary Art Space. She is currently the
convenor and curator at The Front Art Space at Docklands where she continues
her interest in collaborative ventures