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Penny Coss
Silted
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100 x 100 x 40 cm
This work is based on fIeldwork researching tides. The still waters of an inland pool, once transparent, are now veiled by cyclone-borne debris—its surface holding the imprint of disturbance. The clarity now muddied by debris from cyclonic activity belies this work. The iron coloured orange pigment stains on paper references the stratigraphic layers of time. The iron rod suspended by pink string twine hovers like the varying tidal lines found on tidal charts.
ron-pigmented stains permeate the paper in slow, saturated layers, recalling the geological time of sedimentary accumulation. Suspended from an iron rod by pink thread, the composition is held in quiet tension, as a sewn cloth stained in blue angled line moves in the space, fracturing the continuity of the orange field, unsettling its reductive calm.
ron-pigmented stains permeate the paper in slow, saturated layers, recalling the geological time of sedimentary accumulation. Suspended from an iron rod by pink thread, the composition is held in quiet tension, as a sewn cloth stained in blue angled line moves in the space, fracturing the continuity of the orange field, unsettling its reductive calm.
Penny Coss lives and works on the unceded lands of Gadigal (Sydney) . She holds an MFA (Research) from UNSW (2024) and studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London. A casual academic at UNSW Art & Design, her practice integrates stratigraphy, geology, and archival research with site-specific fieldwork in urban and remote contexts, including investigations in Thailand, Iceland, and Western Australia. Solo exhibitions include Stratigraphic Thinking (2024), Anxious Spaces (2020), and Undercurrent19 (2019). Her work has featured nationally and internationally since 1994 at venues including Carriageworks, PICA, AGWA, Itami Arts Museum (Japan), and ArtStage Singapore. She is represented in several public and corporate collections.
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image courtesy Penny Coss
