2005-09. Map of Atlantis
In a 2005 exhibition, “Tranquility,” at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, that subsequently travelled to New York, we presented a joint solo show—with Australia’s other long term artist collaboration, Farrell & Parkin—consisting of one large installation of a video projection and large transparent photographs, the four of us gathering our works together in a curatorial exercise, conjuring the figure of a space-time traveller in a complex interface between painting, photography and art historical research.
As Artspace director, Blair French, wrote, ‘In these small theatres of suspended reality, hallucinations and dreams are not conditions of escape but urgent performative undertakings through which history, society and the self fleetingly come into focus’ (French, 2005, p. 4). Sydney Morning Herald art critic Peter Hill agreed, ‘Within the space, there is a rare symmetry between the exhibits. It is as if within the space, the works become like some kind of flag or heraldic device, all four walls taking to each other’ (Hill, 2005).
