Kay Andonopoulos
Born 1963, Sydney
Bachelor of Visual Arts
Graduation show: 2004
Graduation ceremony: 2005
Artwork in Space YZ
The everyday internalised, 2004
12 biscuit tins
15 x 20 x 10 cm
One Moment for Christian, 2004
One Moment for Christian (detail), 2004
One Moment is a response to Christian Boltanski’s Everyday. Boltanski’s work contained a set of biscuit tins that were filled with photographs of the everyday; a significant established culture, dealing with the power of memory and the concept of identity shown in the photographic image.
I am a product of the stolen generation. My father was a proud Wiradjuri man of the Galari clan, who grew up in part on the Erambi mission. The Wiradjuri culture lay sleeping for many years as the result of the impact of European colonisation.
In One Moment the etched images initiate a story, telling stories of change and culture, The tin surface provides a platform where memory and static emotion are externalised and etched on the vessel.
Wax Lyrical, 2004, 25 x 25 x 20 cm, paper bark and bird skeletons
University was at once a stepping stone and also a raft that enabled me to fully explore expression in art form. Through spending time in Z block I was exposed to a vast range of possibilities and developed the discipline to refine and articulate a work of art.
Breathe, 2004, 200 x 300 cm, bronze cast deflated balloons on an internal spiral staircase
The politics of identity, 2003, 100 x 20 cm, cast wax bottles, hair clippings, etched glass, light box
The permanence of a life yet lived, 2004, 35 x 12 x 25 cm, cast bronze