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Penelope Stewart is an artist, curator/writer and publisher whose multi-disciplinary practice encompasses expansive architectural installations/interventions, alternative photography, artist books, and works on paper. Re-current themes address notions of cultural memory, of time and space and a considered approach to the relationship between objects, architecture, gardens, landscape and the places between – places to intervene, inhabit and above all activate. Whether it has been historic sites such as Musée Barthète, a small museum in France, or a museum like the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY or the deconstruction/reconstruction of a 19 th century book of botany using cyanotype, her intentions are to create sensory spaces, haptic experiences, transforming our perceptions and possible readings of space, time and memory.

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Craft ACT, Dwell – Canberra National Domain, ACT, Australia 2005

 

Craft ACT Museum, Dwell – Canberra National Domain, ACT, Australia 2005

In 2005 I received an invitation from Barbara McConchie, Executive Director of Craft ACT to participate and create new work for an off-site project located in the Parliamentary Triangle of Canberra, ACT., the capital of Australia.  The site that I selected was a 250’ pergola in the gardens of the Old Parliament House where I installed a series of fabric modules imprinted with architectural details and sewn together. These were partially sewn on site and integrated into the pergola to create a translucent breathing skin of space. This work was installed for 6 months. Being in Australia was such a brilliant opportunity and my hosts were incredible with installation support, dinners to meet other artists and early morning hikes to witness the mobs of kangaroos living close by. I was in Canberra for six weeks and it was an amazing first visit to Australia.  I am forever thankful to Barbara McConchie for the invitation.