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Elizabeth Day
2021
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Irregularity (3)
Chromosome drawing with recycled plastic. 0.8 X 0.6 metres framed
Elizabeth Day is currently working on a writing project about 25 works done in and about prisons titled ‘working in the trouble’. She was represented in The National 4 (2023) with 1797 Parramatta Gaol Wall, Reason Beyond a Reason ( unraveling institutions) Recently published Animating Creative Projects in the Australian Anthrpocene in Ethics, Care and Art edited by Jacqueline Millner and Gretchen Coombs (Routledge) 2021.
The prison is a damaged site where British and indigenous law incongruously met. It was the reason for colonisation of Australia and a fertile place of research. Day is currently working on a curatorial project with Claire Taylor titled Dreams Nursed in Darkness to show at Wollongong City Gallery next year that is a consideration of the Australian archetype of imprisonment involving indigenous and refugee and incarcerated artists.
Also continuing to work with The Longford Project a collaboration with Noelene Lucas, Julie Gough and Anna Gibbs
The prison is a damaged site where British and indigenous law incongruously met. It was the reason for colonisation of Australia and a fertile place of research. Day is currently working on a curatorial project with Claire Taylor titled Dreams Nursed in Darkness to show at Wollongong City Gallery next year that is a consideration of the Australian archetype of imprisonment involving indigenous and refugee and incarcerated artists.
Also continuing to work with The Longford Project a collaboration with Noelene Lucas, Julie Gough and Anna Gibbs
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Elizabeth Day, from the ongoing series The Irregularities. 2021- , assorted recycled plastics
