ADRIENNE DOIG
© Martin Browne Contemporary © All images copyright Adrienne Doig This catalogue is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. COMPILER: Hilary Perrett COLOUR SEPARATIONS: Spitting Image, Sydney PRINTING: Oxygen, Sydney Cover Image: Splendid (Grandmother’s Flower Garden), 2013, patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas, 98.5 x 78.5 cm
ADRIENNE DOIG SPLENDID
18 September - 13 October 2013
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SPLENDID Pieced together from the remnants of unfinished patchwork projects, these self portraits draw on the improvisational and “make-do” qualities of patchwork quilts. Within the patchwork are fragments of old clothing, feed sacks, bed sheets and even handkerchiefs, all saved and lovingly stitched together to create something new, useful and precious. Most of these projects were found on Ebay and date from the 1930s and 1940s; they show an inventiveness in the reshaping of scraps of fabric into traditional patterns - Apple Core, Broken Dishes and Tumbling Block. These fragments tell the story of an unknown maker, patiently and painstakingly creating something out of nothing. I will never know why these works were not finished. But incorporating them into the imagery of my self-portraits, I bring the characteristics of patchwork into the background of my work. Portraiture is a fashioning of identity, which in these works is repeated through the transformation of scraps into my self image. The inherent vanity and affectation of portraiture is revealed in these self depictions - as much about role play as an inherent individual truth or identity. There is a parallel between the commemorative aspects of quilting and the historicising aspect of portraiture. The stories are in the patterns and textures, the fragments and layers. Adrienne Doig, August 2013
The View (Honeycomb), 2013, patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas, 181 x 152 cm
Above: Lone Star III, 2013 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas 37 x 38 cm Right: Feminist Cliché (Dresden Plate), 2012 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on linen 99 x 77 cm
Right: Pretty Good, (Kansas Dug Out), 2013 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas 83.5 x 85 cm Following Pages: Left: Very Interesting (Lone Star), 2012 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas 96 x 73.5 cm Right: Good Enough (Sweet Tater Pie), 2013 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas 105.5 x 76.5 cm
Above: Lone Star I, 2013 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas 38 x 38 cm Right: Nice Work (Thousand Pyramids), 2013 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas 99 x 76.5 cm Following Pages: Left: Springtime I (Grandmother’s Flower Garden), 2013 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas 95.5 x 76 cm Right: Springtime II (Grandmother’s Flower Garden), 2013 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas 95.5 x 76 cm
New Shoes (Broken Dishes), 2013, patchwork, appliquĂŠ and embroidery on canvas, 76 x 99 cm
The Red Boots (Apple Core), 2013, patchwork, appliquĂŠ and embroidery on canvas, 78 x 105 cm
Sensible Shoes (Tumbling Block), 2013 Patchwork, appliquĂŠ and embroidery on canvas 77 x 100 cm
Above: Lone Star IV, 2013 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas 35.5 x 35.5 cm Right: Not Worth It (Four Patch), 2012 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on linen 99 x 75.5 cm
Lone Star V, 2013, patchwork, appliquĂŠ and embroidery on canvas, 37 x 37 cm
Lone Star VI, 2013, patchwork, appliquĂŠ and embroidery on canvas, 34 x 33 cm
Above: Lone Star II, 2013 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas 37 x 38 cm Right: Splendid (Grandmother’s Flower Garden), 2013 Patchwork, appliqué and embroidery on canvas 98.5 x 78.5 cm
ADRIENNE DOIG 1996 Graduate Diploma Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney 1986-89 Bachelor of Visual Arts, College of Fine Arts, Sydney 1982-83 Certificate Art and Drama, Ryflkle Folkehogskule, Norway SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 Splendid, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney 2012 AD in Arcadia Ego, Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney 2010 Flora and Fauna, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith 2005 Some People, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney 2004 The Two of Us, Kaliman Gallery, Sydney 2002 My Life as a Doll, Scott Donovan Gallery, Sydney 2001 Domestic Drama, The Salon, Vienna, Austria 2000 Feelings, (with Peter Spilsbury) Spectrascope , The Performance Space, Sydney 1999 The Other Woman, The Performance Space, Sydney SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 Post. Remix. Connect., The University of Queensland Artists’ Self-Portrait Prize, The University of Queensland Art Musuem, Brisbane 2013 It is What It Is, curated by Tia McIntyre, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor 2013 Close to Home, curated by Rilka Oakley, Blue Mountains City Gallery, Katoomba 2013 Birds, curated by Naomi McCarthy, Penrith Regional Galley, Penrith 2012 Hello Dollies, curated by Shirley Dabourne, Penrith Regional Galley, Penrith 2011 Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta 2011Hands On, curated by Cash Brown, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Sutherland 2010 The Blake Prize, National Art School Sydney and Touring, New South Wales 2008 Stitched, curated by Susan Gibb, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith 2007 Multiple Personality, curated by Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Mop Gallery, Sydney 2006 Truth and Likeness, curated by Michael Desmond, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 2006 Figure8, curated by Barbara Flynn for Deloitte, Sydney 2005 Micro Masters, Action Heroes, curated by Alexander Taylor, Blindside, Melbourne 2005 Material Girls and Boys, curated by Barbara Flynn, Deloitte, Sydney AWARDS AND GRANTS 2007 Moya Dyring Studio, Cité International, Paris 2003 Studio Residency, Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council, Milan 2001 Austrian Federal Chancellory Studio Residency, Vienna 1996 Project Grant, New Media Arts Board of the Australia Council, Sydney 1992 Project Grant, Visual Arts Craft Board of the Australia Council, Sydney 1982 Scholarship, Minnefondet Foundation, Norway COLLECTIONS Artbank,Sydney Tamworth Regional Gallery Harry Seidler and Associates, Sydney Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Deloitte, Sydney Principal Advisory Services, Sydney Baker and MacKenzie, Sydney O’Hallorans Pty Ltd, Sydney Pat Corrigan Collection, Sydney Private collections in Australia, USA, United Kingdom, Italy, and Norway