‘Moving House’ is a collaborative exhibition between artist couple Peter and Susan O’Doherty, combining Susan’s mixed media constructions and Peter’s paintings. The exhibition reflects their respective childhoods living in families that were perpetually on the move; Susan’s father an officer in the Australian Army and Peter’s a carpenter/builder.
Susan’s wooden assemblages encase found objects that reconstruct rooms of a house. To convey the sense of scale through a child’s eye, Peter has painted a series of large canvases with images of suburban houses reflecting the distinctive Australian suburban architecture of decades past and present. This exhibition examines the artists’ houses in relation to memory, identity and transience.
Cowra Regional Art Gallery
Until 16 March, 2014
New South Wales
Susan O’Doherty, Randwick Dining Room, 2013, mixed media assemblage, 120 x 140 x 20cm
Courtesy the artist and NG Art Gallery, Sydney
