Emma Stoneman’s background is in photography, printmaking, digital art and installation, exhibiting in galleries and non-traditional environments. Her strong interest in the built landscape has resulted in her art practice predominantly anchored in photography, investigating the poetic forms of human-made structures and exploring allegorical comparisons between the built environment and the function, structure, posture and alignment of the human body – the building blocks of humanity.
Antoinietta Covino-Beehre’s art practice incorporates multiple disciplines including printmaking, sculpture, drawing and photography. Her recent work explores the ‘souvenir’, memory and remembrance, together with ideas surrounding nostalgia, cultural identity and place. Inspired by her Italian background, Covino-Beehre conveys meaning through complex layering of objects, text and imagery. Reconfiguring and shifting perceptions of the everyday object or the souvenir, she positions the object as a mirror of identity and self while exploring universal issues surrounding folklore, cultural connection and belonging.
Post Office Gallery – University of Ballarat*
11 December, 2013 to 8 February, 2014
Victoria
Antonietta Covino-Beehre, I dream of Paris II, 2013, archival ink on rag paper, wax and wood, 42 x 31cm
Courtesy the artist and Post Office Gallery, University of Ballarat*
*Federation University Australia