Sarah Contos, Sarah Contos Presents: The Long Kiss Goodbye (installation view), 2016, screen-print on linen, canvas and lamé, digital printed fabrics and various found fabrics, PVC, poly-fil, glass, ceramic and plastic beads, thread, artists’ gloves, 330 x 610 x 25cm. Gift of Janet & Diana Ramsay Foundation for the Ramsay Art Prize 2017, Art Gallery of South Australia. Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
Western Australia
‘The Long Kiss Goodbye’ explores how artists transform familiar materials and symbols into complex meditations on love, loss, attraction and repulsion: the ashes of visual diaries become ceremonial jewellery, fragments and studio scraps become an epic patchwork of memories, and simple actions become poignant rituals.
Curated by Gemma Weston, the exhibition features a group of artists from around the nation, each with a unique connection to Western Australia: Sarah Contos (NSW), Penny Coss (WA), Iain Dean (WA), Brent Harris (VIC), Clare Peake (NT), Michele Elliot with Tender Funerals (NSW).
Link to exhibition catalogue, video, 360 virtual tour and education kit
