Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Residency 2009-2010

Melbourne based artists Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley are currently undertaking a MAAP residency to produce a central work for the 2010 exhibition 'Light From Light'.

They are researching new solar technologies to create a renewable energy structure, to be displayed at the State Library Queensland and the Shanghai Library in China.

Burchill and McCamely visited Brisbane in early 2009 to help scope the exhibition concept and design.

Their interest in solar technologies has seen them undertake artist residencies at The International Art Space Kellerberrin Australia (IASKA) and the University of Woolongong to develop art and research in this area.

Since 1985 Burchill and McCamley have been frequent collaborators and have had numerous individual and collaborative solo exhibitions both in Australia and internationally. Their art practice interlaces feminist, psychoanalytic, filmic, semiotic and spatial concerns, with language, and the language of art, film and popular culture, central to their work.

A major survey of their collaborative works, Tip of the Iceberg: Selected works 1985–2001, was held in 2001 at the University Art Museum, University of Queensland, and at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne. Recent solo projects included Neon 2005, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and All That Rises Must Converge, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne. Recent group exhibitions include 21st Century Modern, 2006 Adelaide Biennial, Art Gallery of South Australia. Burchill and McCamley have both been awarded a number of international residencies including the Australia Council Studio, Paris, and the Künstlerhaus Bethanien Studio, Berlin, to Burchill; and the University of Sydney Power Studio, Paris, and the Australia Council Studio, Tokyo, to McCamley. They lived from 1992 until 1996 in Berlin, where they were jointly awarded the Berlin Senate Art Scholarship in 1995. They currently live and work in Melbourne.

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Gallery

Domeville (2009)

Artist: Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley

Medium: Steel, steel mesh, corkboard and pins

Photo Credits: The artists and Anna Schwartz Gallery

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