Linda Clark

14 — 29 September 2019

Opening Reception: 13 September 2019, 6 - 9pm

In Bearing Witness: Absence, Linda Clark explores the relationship between mother and daughter. An immersive installation, the work blends and obscures images of the artist and her daughter, and draws attention to ideas such as play, ritual and the potential for autonomy within family dynamics. Bearing Witness: Absence extends Clark’s investigations in the the complex interrelationship between the roles of mother and artist as a potential strategy to address the issue of maternal periphery.

Dr Linda Clark is an emerging installation artist exhibiting nationally and internationally. Her work has been included in key exhibitions such as Dark Rituals: Magical Relics from the Little Art Spellbook at the University of Sunshine Coast and UTAS, and Antipods: Magical Creatures with Backward Feet at University of Saskatchewan, Canada. She has recently engaged in curatorial projects such as Tethered: Embodying the Mother-Artist Model at USQ Artsworx. In 2015, Clark won the Queensland Regional Art Awards Gray Puksand Digital Award. Clark has recently completed her Doctor of Creative Arts with a practice led research project at the University of Southern Queensland. Her research project investigated whether a practice-led research methodology titled ‘The Mother-Artist Model’ can be used within a collaborative network of mother-artists to facilitate practice, engagement and exchange, to overcome regionalism.