Bernadette Boundy, Final Folds #5, 2013

This image is from the new exhibition I’m in called Folded at Tacit Contemporary Art, August 21-September 9.

The exhibition is a group show with five of my former students at NMIT Photo Media: Bernadette Boundy, Sally D’Orsogna, Cathy Hayward, Sue Lock & Margot Sharman. This is our second exhibition together after last year’s Bound by the Book at 69 Smith Street. I hope it will become an annual event. Sue Lock came up with the word-theme, which everyone has interpreted in their own way.

This is the text I wrote for the show:

What a gentle word ‘fold’ is. It brings arms together in embrace, makes curves out of straight lines and brings people together into the fold of a common belief.

The artists in this exhibition have made a fold of their own. They are former photography students and their teacher who hold an exhibition each year to maintain their creative alliance. The benefit of this association is the continuance of a friendship with the purpose of a common goal. This year the goal is to interpret the word ‘folded’ and bring some individual perspective to a word that is both a physical phenomenon and metaphorical idea.

The theme is interpreted with varied subjects and different intentions. Bodies, clothes, metal and other materials are examined to reveal the beauty or wonder of each thing. That alone can be enough in the medium of photography that looks at the world of objects with such an intense gaze. But these photographs reveal more: layers, inversions and suggestions and such disparate ideas as the distortions of memory, the abstractions of flesh and the artful domesticity of folded clothes.

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