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Scavenging meaning

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March 2006, no. 279

Fiona Hall by Julie Ewington

Piper Press, $88 hb, 192 pp, 0975190113

Scavenging meaning

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March 2006, no. 279

For her participation in the 2002 Adelaide Biennial, Fiona Hall encapsulated her recent practice and its emphases on the fragilities of ecosystems, and on the instability of the social and political structures on which our cultures are based. She stated that ‘now we know that the seemingly infinite, disparate variety of living matter on earth, of which we are but a part, is life’s giant, polymorphic skin, encasing us all, inside which we dwell in kindred, genetic proximity’. And so it is that the seemingly infinite possibilities and disparate conceptual and material elements of Hall’s extra-ordinary practice are integrated between the covers of Julie Ewington’s outstanding monograph, Fiona Hall, which was published to coincide with the Queensland Art Gallery’s focused survey of the artist’s work since 1990.

Fiona Hall

Fiona Hall

by Julie Ewington

Piper Press, $88 hb, 192 pp, 0975190113

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