| Artist
Statement
Travel has long informed Dench's art practice and like the
Grand Tourists
of previous centuries, Dench returns home from her journeys
laden with memories
and mementos. Extensive travels throughout Europe have provided
rich inspiration and source material for earlier bodies
of work. The artist has previously used fragments of European
city maps and the designs of grills and manhole covers.
Abstracted, layered and embossed, raised against the paper?s
surface, these fragments suggest an urban structure and
civic order but are not always explicit in their origins.
Similarly in these recent works the flight maps are used
implicitly. Sections used in the works imply passage, movement
and circuit.
Written by Kate Barber, ACMI, Melbourne. |
