Sensible
Susan Ballard
July 17 - August 10, 2002
Everyone wants to sell you something, and here's our pitch. Unlike
other
shows profiling new and (post) emergent artists, this series contains
no
thematic alibi or curatorial catchphrases to disguise what we're
really
saying: we just think these people are some of the best new artists
around!
And next in the ongoing Hard Sell series is Susan Ballard. Art
theorist and
artist, Susan Ballard is currently a lecturer in art theory at the
School
of Art, Otago Polytechnic in Dunedin. Her work has recently been
included
in Beyond the Surface, a touring show to the Dunedin Public Art
Gallery and
the Suter Gallery, Nelson. Delicate and organic, her work explores
the
organisms that surround us, the not-quite invisible matter which
we take
for granted.
With her exhibition Sensible at The
Physics Room, Ballard utilises not just the visual, but also incorporates
the senses of smell and sound. Her photographic works focus so closely
on their subject, so as to blur to the edge of recognition. Similarly
the scent used by Ballard to fill the gallery in this work is so
overwhelmingly sweet to the point of repulsion. With the inclusion
of scent and sound, Ballard creates an encompassing environment,
and in effect makes the viewer all the more aware of how they perceive
the world around them.
Susan Ballard has published a catalogue to accompany this exhibition,
with assistance from the Otago Polytechnic Research and Development
Committee.
Purchase the HARDSELL!! catalogue
Hardsell!! Postcard
Susan Ballard
Susan Ballard Sensible (detail)
Reviews, Essays & Articles ‘Artscene’
The Package, August, 2002
Matthew Appleby
HARDSELL - BECAUSE YOU WANT IT!
SUSAN BALLARD - Artist Q&A
In The Physics Room Annual 2002
ISBN# 0-9582359-1-0
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